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EPISTLES IN VERSE, 



BETWEEN 



CYNTHIO AND LEONORA, 



IN THREE CANTOS, 



DESCRIPTIVE OF 



A VOYAGE TO AMID FROM THE EAST IJVDIES, 



WITH 



SEVERAL OCCASIONAL PIECES. 



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BY GEORGE MAESHALL 9 

LATE A CHIEF OFFICER IN THE HONORABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SEA SERVICE. 






Blest be the man, his memory at least, 
Who found the art thus to unfold his breast, 
And taught succeeding times an easy way 

' Their secret thoughts by letters to convey! 
To baffle absence and secure delight, 
Which, till that time, was limited to sight ! 
The parting farewell spoke the last adieu ; 
The less'ning distance pass'd— then loss of view! 

' The friend was gone which some kind moment gave, 
And absence separated like the grave ! 
When for a wife the youthful Patriarch sent, 
The camels, jewels, and the steward went, 
And wealthy equipage, tho' grave and slow, 
But not a line that might the lover show ! 
The ring and bracelets woo'd her hands and arms ; 
But had she known of melting words the charms, 
That under secret seals in ambush lie, 
To catch the soul when drawn into the eye, 
The fair Assyrian had not took his guide, 
Nor her soft hands in chains of pearl been ty'd." 



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MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED, 

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBEDIENT SERVANT, 

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'J he E?igravrrigs on Wood printed by J. Warwick, 7, Neirils Court, letter Lane, London. 



A D VE R TISEMENT. 



The verses now offered to the reader are the production of the juvenile years of a 
sailor, during his relaxation from professional duties. Tlwugh many intimate friends have 
been pleased to fancy they saw something like merit in these effusions of a leisure hour, 
and have encouraged the author to submit them to the view of the public, yet he is fully 
aware of the awful responsibility he thus voluntarily incurs, and is perfectly sensible that 
he must chiefly rely upon the disadvantages of his situation, and the praise of having 
in some measure surmounted them, for such approbation as may be vouchsafed to him. 

To those who are acquainted with the dangers and vicissitudes of a nautical life, it 
will not be necessary to remark, that few opportunities of literary refinement are 
presented to the mind of a seaman. Wlulst he struggles with fortitude against the 
variety of difficulties and perils which constantly surround him, the utmost excursions 
of his fancy, without presuming to soar to the airy regions of poetry, are usually bounded 
by eager anticipations of the intended port. J'ictories at sea or discoveries on 
shore, and not the pursuits of learning and science, occupy his thoughts, when the scanty 
hour of meditation is afforded, which in a great measure is indebted for its value 
to prudent activity and strict attention. 

Under these discouraging circumstances the following pieces xcere begun and com- 
pleted ; and, after a lapse of thirty five years, tliey are at length, in compliance with 
the encouragement the author has received, ventured to be laid before the public. 
Satisfied as he is of his own inability to deserve the attention he thus solicits, he calculates upon 
some excuse for the present intrusion, on the consideration, that as Ids lot in I'fie has not 
bestowed upon him the advantages of wealth, he may be pardoned for having acceded to a 
proposal, which has procured for him a list of names numerous beyond his most sanguine 
expectations. To these generous friends lie embraces this opportunity of reluming his most 
sincere and grateful acknowledgements ; and, in the earnest hope that they will look with 
tenderness on those defects which are inseparable from all human performances, he respect- 
fully commits his work to their kind indulgence. 

Newcastle upon Tyr.e, June 4, 1812. 



A SON TO A FATHER, 



GIVING A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF 



A VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES. 



INTRODUCTION TO CANTO FIRST, 



1L 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 



Hail! much-lov'd man! forgive th' aspiring muse, 
That still, tho' feebly pinion'd, aims to soar, 
Whilst I recount my long and wearied course 
From Albion's cliffs to these inclement shores. 
And thou, Almighty Father ! whose command 
Remotest seas and prostrate nations own ; 
Whether ador'd invisible, all pure, 
Diffuse as light throughout eternal space, 
Or to some grove or mountain- top confin'd, 
The Deity of ignorance and fear ; 
Bow down thine ear from thy celestial throne, 
And the full off 'ring of my praise accept. 
Accept the humble off 'ring of my praise 



12 FftOM A SON TO A FATHER. 

For ev'ry instance of thy gracious aid, 
For ev'ry wonder in my favor wrought. 

Whilst roving thus thro' Ocean's utmost bounds, 
And fancy wanton'd mid the splendid scenes 
Of Asia's gorgeous piles, with fleeting haste 
We greet that far-fam'd # town whose dastard fate 
Caus'd dying pangs in royal Mary's breast. 
But here my growing hopes too soon were damp'd, 
And mournful parting from the godlike man 
Who snatch'd me from Oblivion's sick'ning shade, 
To western shores I bent my friendless way. 
Hard tho' my lot, yet what my sire requests, 
'Tis Fate commands, and mine still to obey. 



* Calais. i-It was seized and taken by the Duke of Guise, in the latter end of Mary's reign, 

after being in the possession of the English from the time of Edward III. --Mary said, when she was 
opened, the name of Calais would be found engraven on her heart. 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 13 



But ah ! my friend, when haply you arrive 
Where Indian spices scent the ambient air, 

Where Nilus flows, or sad Euphrates rolls, 

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Think now I freeze, and now intensely burn, 

And heave for me the sympathising sigh. 

Now welcome Eurus fills the swelling sails, 
The lab'ring cordage groans beneath his might, 
And the sharp prow divides the yielding main. 
See far behind Ocrinum's less'ning height, 
Fam'd headland of Danmonium's rocky coast, 
By shipwreck'd mariners erst wisely shun'd. 
Now direful Scilly mocks the straining sight, 
And her faint fires send forth a dying gleam. 

Adieu, de&r cliffs ! ye happy plains, adieu ! 

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14 FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 

The night of dark Uncertainty o'erspreads 
My future life— -my heart is still with you ! 

Yet e'er bright Sol, in many annual rounds, 
Shall with his genial influence cheer the globe. 
New splendor on my native land shall beam. 
See haughty Spain submissive strike the flag, 
Where'er thy dreaded fleets triumphant ride ! 
See humbled Gaul with lowly aspect bend, 
And with dejected air thy friendship seek ! 
See ev'ry region of the earth conspire 
To waft their wealth to thy industrious shores ! 
Ah ! may I yet revisit thee again, 
Once more survey thy Thames, of rivers Queen, 
Thy sedgy Cam, and hear Maria's song 
Sweet- warbled thro' its many -winding vales ! 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 15 

From Hyperborean skies that chill the blood 
Far distant now, we feel the scorching ray ; 
Toss'd on the heads of broad Atlantic waves, 
Now storms appal, now vexing calms succeed. 
Here Boreas, sweeping o'er the rising flood, 
Provokes the ruthless storm ; Heav'n's fire shoots forth 
In forked arrows from the angry sky, 
And the bright flash illumes the gloom of night. 
Black and sulphureous clouds discharge their stores ; 
And hark ! loud thunder rolls with deaf 'ninof roar. 
No more the helm obeys the pilot's hand ; 
But, borne aloft, our masts invade the skies, 
And straight are buried in the gulf below. 

Now the fierce gale exhausted dies away, 
Nature reposes on the lap of Peace, 



16 FftOM A SON TO A FATHER. 

And our tall vessel rolls her giddy head, 

As swell on swell assails her lofty sides. 

Lo ! azure streaks the crystal vault o'erspread, 

Resplendent Cynthia gilds the shining deep, 

Whose waves in sportive undulation play. 

Dreadful vicissitudes ! but grateful still 

To minds resolv'd to climb the steeps of Fame, 

To Genius that aspires, tho' o'er its head 

The waters of Misfortune wildly roll. 

Grateful is honor purchased by desert ! 

Let sordid spirits in luxurious ease 

The precious moments of existence waste ; 

Ours is the useful life, ours want and woe, 

Famine, and all the direful train of ills 

That human nature shrinks at ; these conspire 

In vain to check us in the glorious race. 




FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 17 



Now from the main the heavy fogs arise 
* O'er Newfoundland's vast and prolific banks ; 
Whilst Avafted onward with auspicious gales 
We pass the false Nantucket's treaeh'rous sands ; 
Here frozen Boreas stays our prosp'rous course, 
And, fraught with all his wintry plagues, combines 
To bar us from the hospitable port. 

At length we view the welcome shining fane ; 
Scarce we believe, or trust our wond'ring sight, 
When Sandy-Hook extends its friendly arms, 
And in autumnal hues salutes our eyes ; 
Whilst far and wide the hills and dales display 
The latest gift of Ceres to the year. 
Such a delight exulting mortals own, 

* North-West winds prevalent here at this season of the year. 

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IS FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 

Rais'd from the couch where Death expectant waits 
Th' Almighty's nod to execute his task. 

Fondly I gaze o'er all the cheerful land, 
But still remember my dear friends' advice ; 
What tho' th' enchanting scene invites my stay, 
I boldly venture on the waves again ! 

Yet should I well deserve the odious name 
Ingratitude conveys, if I not chant 
Your praises, fair ones of this infant world ! 
Free, gentle, good, and virtuous, you adorn 
Each stage of life ; in you the duteous child, 
Th' endearing mother, and the prudent wife ! 
Your worth I sing ; but your surpassing charms 
Transcend the reach of my too feeble Lyre. 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. ]«> 



Ah ! could I, Georgiana, sound thy praise, 

A Helen's beauty sure thou shouldst outvie, 

And chaste Lucretia's boasted virtue foil. 

How have my hours transported wing'd their course, 

Fast list'ning as she spoke ! for ev'ry grace 

Sure waited on her tongue, and tun'd her voice. 

Soft tuneful Sappho ! gen'rous-hearted fair ! 

No more I see thee guide the varied wheels 

With manly skill, o'er the wide level plain ; 

Or, wrapt in transport, catch thy glowing verse. 

Adieu, sweet nymph ! thou charming maid, adieu ! 

For thee each year a festal day shall wake 

To glad me with remembrance of the past, 

And all the joyous hours thou hast bestow'd. 

Alas ! lamented friend ! where art thou now ? 



£0 FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 



Campbell, to echo Georgiana's praise ! 

But ah ! thy tuneful accents charm no more 

In mortal semblance ! Dearest shade, come down, 

And hover o'er me with thy angel wings ! 

Dispel the grief that fills my inmost soul, 

Grief, endless grief, for thy untimely fate ! 

Had rocks, or shoals, or mountain waves at war 

With howling winds, or all the hideous tribe 

Of savages that prowl this desert waste ; 

Had these, and more, been marshal'd 'gainst thy life, 

We jointly then had render'd up our breath, 

Happy to fall united ! Now alone 

I wander comfortless in search of rest. 

And like a shipwreck'd mariner aghast 

On some wave-beaten rock, I cast my eyes 

O'er Life's rough ocean, but my hopes are gone ! 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 21 

Soon we descry the shores, that owe their name 
# To Charles's bride, slow rising from afar. 
And now, in lieu of seamen's dangers past, 
Welcome soft music and the sportive dance, 
While jocund damsels and their raptur'd mates 
Pass the delicious moments void of care, 
And only study how to laugh and love. 
We leave you, under Calvert's friendly sway 
Contented, lovely girls ! for pathless woods, 
And the devouring herd that harbour there, 
Whose piercing howls, when Night o'erspreads her veil, 
Terrific shake the firmest breast with fear. 

Now safe we greet with eager view the bounds 
Of that fam'd colony, from whence the weed, 

* The wife of Charles I. was called Henrietta ; that of Charles II. Catharine. 

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23 FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 

The salutif'rous plant # that shields the breast 
From noxious vapours of th' inclement sky, 
Provocative of solid studious thought, 
Derives its earliest growth ; the land that erst 
Employ'd the labours of a virgin Queen, 
And still is sacred to Eliza's fame. 

Thence far away the martial trump invites 
My youthful ardour to th' ensanguin'd field, 
To wield my sword against Britannia's foes, 
Where southern suns intensely shed their fires, 
And a devouring train of plagues create. 
The winds, obedient to the warriors' vows, 
Triumrahant waft us to the distant shores, 

* The Docken, or plant denominated Tobacco, first found here, and plucked, and dried, and 
smoked, by Sir Walter Raleigh ; who, in honor of Queen Elizabeth, his sovereign mistress, christened 
it Virginia, the name it bears to this clay. 






FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 23 



Where wild Bellona scatters death around, 
And wasteful Havoc holds resistless sway. 

Here must I cease ; superior is the theme, 
The glorious theme, the great, the godlike chief 
Who rul'd our fleet, and vanquished haughty Gaul, 
To my too mean essay ! Let Homer wake, 
Let Virgil strike, once more the martial Lyre, 
Or Caesar's or Pharsalia's bard arise ! 
Their lofty numbers, their aspiring song', 
Alone could reach the summit of his praise. 

Once more at Neptune's shrine my vows I pay, 
And Asia's havens soon shall ope their arms. 
Soon shall the waving deserts smoke around, 
And lurking monsters scour across the wild. 



24 FROM A SON TO A FATHEK, 

But this e'er long shall swell prosaic tale ; 
For sad reflection now assails my heart, 
And the poetic rage, that lent me wings, 
Expires, as silent as an evening breeze. 

Ye tuneful Nine ! ye Heliconian fair ! 
Forgive the fond presumption of my youth, 
In daring thus to invocate your names, 
In this my latest, this my last offence, 
Last profanation of your hallow'd rites. 
Dear to my heart be this my latest song, 
That filial homage to my Father pays ! 



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Great God ! who ruFst the raging" winds 
Which Ocean's face deform, 

Propitious to my pray'rs attend, 
And hush the rising storm. 

Do thou the seaman's fears remove, 
His wav'd-toss'd vessel steer ; 

Be thou his guide upon the deep, 
His help when death is near. 

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26 THE SUPPLICATION. 

And while around, in dreadful strife, 

Terrific surges roar, 
Let him not pray to thee in vain, 

But lead him safe to shore. 

If a fond partner weeps his fate, 
Or child for father sighs, 

Support them in their deep distress, 
And dry their tear-swoln eyes. 

In transports shall they meet again, 
Adore thy wond'rous ways, 

And own thy providential care, 
With gratitude and praise. 



LEONORA 



TO 



ON HIS LEAVING ENGLAND. 



Dearest of all in Britain's isle, 
Too soon to leave thy native soil, 

And foreign climes explore ; 
The paths of Virtue ever tread, 
And, by the hand of Knowledge led, 

Be blest with Wisdom's lore. 



LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. 



The gifts of Fortune too be thine ; 
May each auspicious pow'r combine 

To keep thy mind at ease ! 
On thee Hygeia's bounty flow, 
Unknown to thee be ev'ry woe 

On India's distant seas ! 

But if some ills thou must sustain, 
On shore, or on the boisterous main, 

Oh ! be they few and light ! 
Let sorrow ne'er unman thy breast, 

Of courage still remain possess'd, 
Convinc'd that all is right. 

Thro' Life's rough seas we safe may steer, 
If Prudence keep the reck'ning clear, 




LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. 29 



And Temp'rance note the tide : 
Whene'er an adverse wind prevails, 
Let Fortitude attend the sails, 

And Hope the rudder guide. 



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CYNTHIO 



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LEONORA. 



CANTO THE FIRST. 



ARGUMENT. 



Ctnthio, a young gentleman, is supposed to have been married, unknown to his father, 
to a young lady named Leonora, of great merit, but small fortune — The father, 
having large concerns in India, orders Ids son to get himself ready to go thitlier on 
particular business — The meeting and parting of the lovers — Cynthio sets out for London, 
and on his arrival finds the East India fleet had sailed — Is ordered by his father to 
proceed to Holland, and take his passage in a Dutch Indiaman — Embarks in a vessel named 
the Amity' 's Regard, belonging to Mr Thomas Moling, of Scarborough — Reflections on 
leaving the land — A mild evening — Wind freshens from the S. W. quarter, and increases to 
a stornv—Its progress — A dark, dismal night — The ship labours in great distress — In the 
morning see a vessel, from the S. W. quarter, bearing down upon us—^The ship being water- 
logged, and too great a sea to hoist a boat out, he stood off and on the greatest part of the 
day ; and standing athwart our hawse, dropped a keg, with a small line attached to it, in 
hopes it would come so near as to tempt some adventurous swimmer to try to gel hold of it ; 
but in this case the gale was too violent, and sea too high, to admit any attempt of the sort- 
In the evening the captain of the Young Rosette (the name of the vessel that came to our 
assistance J made the only effort in his power — He came under our lee, and so near, with 
the assistance of the main boom, which we had preserved, as permit the author and two 
seamen to drop on shipboard — He arrived just in a fortunate moment : for, after wearing, 
he pointed to our unfortunate vessel, which was just on the point of sinking — Refections on 
the loss of the Amity's Regard, and shocking impiety of the two surviving seamen — Suppli- 
cate the Deity — Neptune and the sea nymplis attend, and sing a hymn—See the coast of 
Holland, steer for the Texel, and anchor in the river Maese — A soliloquy in consequence 
of our providential escape from a watry grave — The captain, by birth a Dane, assembled 
all his creWi and returned public thanksgiving. 



CYNTHIO and LEONORA. 



CANTO FIRST. 



Close by the busy Tyne, whose verdant side 
The Spring had deck'd in Nature's lavish pride, 
Young Cynthio by his Leonora sate, 
And mourn'd the cruel rigor of his fate ; 
For now the dreadful parting hour drew near, 
Which neither could avoid, nor either bear. 
Grief, for a while, had each so overcome, 
That Passion here seem'd eloquently dumb ; 



3G CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 

At length its way the rising anguish made, 
And thus the pensive lover spoke the maid. 

CYNTHIO. 

Oh ! Leonora, once I fondly thought, 

The deepest grief ill fortune ever wrought, 

At thy appearance would have left me free, 

And ev'ry trouble fled at sight of thee ; 

Thy smiles were wont my heavy heart to cheer, 

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The world, methought, went well when thou wert near 
But while pale Sadness sits upon thy brow, 
'Tis death to view my Leonora now. 



LEONORA, 



Will Cynthio still, by all our plighted vows 3 
Forgive the weakness of his tender spouse ? 



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What if my tongue its fondness could repress, 
Yet what avails it, if my eyes confess ? 
Fain would I. speak, in hopes I may prevail, 
And sure to thee my suit should never fail ; 
Didst thou but know how wanting I shall be 
Of ev'ry comfort, when depriv'd of thee, 
Thou wouldst not, cruel, thus resolve to part, 
And strive relentless thus to break my heart. 
Why dost thou weep ? and is thy grief sincere ? 
Since 'tis thy fault that either sheds a tear. 
By this, the weakness of thy love I find, 
For, were it true, thou wouldst be less unkind ; 
Nor thus could view thv Leonora's woe, 
Nor with determin'd mind to dangers go. 

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3% ^YNTHIO AND LEONORA, 



CYNTHIO. 



Oh ! Leonora ! thy upbraiding spare, 

My heart already has too much to bear. 

Yon radiant sun, the witness of our loves, 

Knows my fond passion, and its warmth approves ; 

A passion, as thy spotless merit, great, 

No chance can alter, and no time abate. 

Is it, alas ! too little that we part, 

But must thy doubts transfix my bleeding heart? 

Thou know'st my honor'd father's stern decree 

Sends me, reluctant, to the treach'rous sea ; 

Unduteous sons will still inconstant prove, 

False to their parents, faithless to their love. 




CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 39 



LEONORA. 



Alas ! my Cynthio ! now I find, too late, 

How maids, by too much faith, but urge their fate ; 

He who by such excuses intercedes, 

Will soon the absence hail for which he pleads. 

Love still to new impressions yielding place, 

Some foreign flame may soon my form efface, 

Some kinder nymph may shew a fairer face. 

But, foolish ! why my fears do I disclose 

To one whose bosom no compassion knows ? 

Yes, deaf as rocks, and wild as waves that roar, 

Go, swift embark ! to be beheld no more ! 

But think, when you the tempest's fury find, 

Think on the storm in Leonora's mind ! 



49 CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 



CYNTIIIO. 





Oh ! Leonora ! I can scarce reprove 

The tender chidings of thy artless love ; 

Not more the seaman joys in prosp'rous breeze, 

Than these dear marks of fond resentment please 

And winning, as thou art, in form and mind, 

'Tis yet a stronger charm to know thee kind ; 

But let not thy alarms embitter Fate, 

Nor start at dangers which thy fears create ; 

Believe me thine, wherever I may go, 

O'er India's sea, or frozen Zembla's snow ; 

Nor think my breast can new impressions bear, 

Thy image is too deeply written there. 

Me, when I'm false, by Fortune left forlorn, 

May Heav'n forsake, and Leonora scorn. 





CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 41 



LEONORA. 



Forgive the weakness of a love-sick maid, 
By Hymen bless'd, but by her stars betray 'd ; 
And must thou go, and I too give consent ? 
Yet oh ! would Fate forbid, and thou relent ! 
Think on thy vows, when, at the holy shrine. 
Thou gav'st thyself to be for ever mine ; * 
But here again I read thy angry eye 
Accuse our feeble sex's jealousy. 
I own my fault, nor canst thou disapprove ; 
Suspicion, Cynthio, is the child of Love. 
Weak is the passion where no doubts appear, 
The fumes of fondness prove the flame sincere ; 
And doubly pleasure pays us for our pain, 
When we behold our fancy 'd terrors vain* 



>»/ CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 

This token wear— the ringlets once were mine, 
So let them witness still the owner thine ; 
And think, my love, the gift was once a part 
Of her, who gave to Cynthio all her heart. 
Farewell ! where'er thy footsteps Fate shall lead, 
May Heav'n protect thee, and each wish succeed ! • 
Yet, oh ! remember me, and quick return, 
Nor leave me thus in solitude to mourn ; 
Lest constant grief my anxious mind corrode, 
And I desponding seek that drear abode, 
Where mortal sorrows calm'd for ever cease, 
And life's rough storm sinks down in endless peace ! 
Behold those babes, sweet pledges of our love ; 
Thy boy, thy second self, sure he may move 
A father's heart ! the savage beasts of prey 
Caress their young ; is man less kind than they ? 






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Our boasted reason vain, if instinct teach 
Wisdom superior, which man cannot reach. 
Forbid it, Heav'n ! nor give my bosom pain ! 
Why sleep thy feelings ? be thyself again ! 

The fair one now, with pensive cares oppressed, 
Silent reclines on her fond partner's breast ; 
Now rising grief in words declare her woe, 
In vain her Cynthio soothes ; still faster flow 
The falling tears ; content I ne'er can taste, 
Thus doom'd my solitary days to waste. 
She said, nor longer could her words impart 
The secret anguish of her bleeding heart. 

CYNTHIO. 

Cheer thy fond breast, and ev'ry fear remove, 
The righteous Pow'rs shall bless thy spotless love ; 



44 CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 

In pity to a flame so like its own, 

Heav'n shall thy faith with bliss unfading crown ; 

Nor long shall absence prey upon thy charms, 

Soon shall I clasp thee to my longing arms ; 

That hope alone supports my drooping heart, 

And gives me fortitude from thee to part. 

For still, whatever Fortune has assign'd, 

Thy image shall be present to my mind ; 

While Tvne swift rolling* to the sea shall rum 

And round the heav'ns shall beam the glorious sun ; 

While trees yon mountain tops with shades supply, 

Thy Cynthio's love for thee shall never die. 

Her tender bosom heaves, my heart she wrings 

With looks, which speak unutterable things; 

I could no more, and selfish sought relief 

In calls of duty, to assuage my grief. 



CYNTHIO AND LEONORA. 45 



Sweet is the tender anguish of the tear, 
Which steals down manly cheeks devoid of fear ! 
Nor let the wretched slaves of folly scorn 
This genuine passion, Nature's eldest born. 

The order giv'n, the signal gun is fir'd, 
And the last moment of my stay expir'd. 
In haste the deck I mount— -compar'd with me 
The storm knows rest, and peace the raging sea ! 
Still, still I view her on the less'ning strand, 
Gaze thro' her tears, and "wave her lily hand." 



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C Y NT H I O 



TO 



LEONORA, 



FROM THE 



CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



CYNTHIO to LEONORA. 



From regions far remote, and wilds that lie 

In southern climes, beneath the torrid sky ; 

From that fam'd point whence no more land is found, 

But roaring waves of ocean all around ; 

To thee, fond object of my soul's delight, 

Whose parting image hovers round my sight ; 

To thee, thrice tender name ! my wedded wife, 

The sting of absence, but the balm of life ; 

To thee, my dearer self, my softer friend, 

These faithful lines let mournful Cynthio send. 



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SO CYNTHIO TO LEONORA, 

Let Love* with active wings, the message bear, 
To soothe thy griefs, and bring me back my share. 
Let him inform thee how my tortur'd mind 
Hangs on the vital treasures left behind ; 
While, sighing as my sentiments I trace, 
Quick drop the tears, and half the page efface. 

Oh ! thou, in whose complacency I find 
The sweetest solace of my lab'ring mind ; 
Thou dearest partner of my joys and cares, 
Thou daily subject of my fervent pray'rs ; 
Whom should I prize but thee, niy charming spouse ? 
Thee, mine alone by Hymen's solemn vows ! 
Are children dear ? then doubly dear to me 
My Leonora's beauteous progeny. 



CYNTHIO JO LEONORA. si 



None can I strive to win, dear wife, but thee, 
Who gav'st, in blooming youth, thy charms to me. 

Blest be the day when Hymen join'd our haiids. 
And bound our faithful hearts in mutual bands i 
The day when thou, by pure affection led, 
Didst take me for thy spouse, thy guide, thy head. 
Hail, wedded love ! source of domestic joys ! 
Hence jarring discord, which all bliss destroys. 
Still in thy bosom glow the sacred flame, 
Tho' years roll by, its vital warmth the same ; 
So may our nuptial joys unfading prove, 
And death alone set limits to our love. 

Say, Leonora, whose unblemish'd mind 
Was sure for purer, happier days design'd, 



52 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

When first thy bosom felt the mutual fire, 

And heav'd unconscious of its new desire ; 

Say, could thy thought the slightest presage form, 

Or fancy picture the succeeding* storm ? 

Couldst thou foresee that Hymen's recent light 

Should sink so soon in envious Fortune's night ? 

That, scarce acquainted with thy spotless charms, 

Fate's sudden frown should tear me from thy arms ? 

From bliss extatic should my heart divide, 

And banish far thy husband from thy side, 

In one sad hour a widow and a bride ! 

Yet such our fate, distressing to the heart, 
Alternate doom'd to meet, again to part. 
In vain would Love our happier lot renew, 

While Fortune keeps her victim still in view, 




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Thrice have I boldly urg'd my eager way, 
O'er threatening billows and the pathless sea ; 
As oft have borne the heart-distracting pain, 
And join'd thee, but to lose thee o'er again. 

Torn from thy sight, my cheerless way I sped 
Where vast Augusta rears her tow'ring head ; 
Old Thames majestic rolls his rapid tide, 
And barks unnumber'd on his bosom glide ; 
The lofty wharfs the tide of crystal laves, 
And ancient fanes are shadow'd in the waves. 
Whilst honor, pleasure, opulence invite, 
Wealth heightens art, and art refines delight ; 
Consuming Luxury the banquet spreads, 
Behind Disease, and future Famine treads. 

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Tir'd of the splendors of her boasted court, 
And the dull noise that circles in her port, 
I sought a ship, and hasten'd to the sea. 
From din and tumult of the city free ; 
To oriental climes I bend my way, 
And bow submissive to a parent's sway. 

Farewell, my love ! the Amity's unmoor'd, 
Lading compleat, and passengers on board. 
The seamen now prepare to leave the shore, 
We bid adieu, perhaps to meet no more ; 
To meet no more, alas ! the cruel day ! 
But such ill-omen'd thoughts be far away ; 
Is't not enough to part, and leave behind 
All that is dear, benevolent, and kind ? 



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Ah me ! in vain the flow'ry spring returns, 
All nature's cheer'd, and yet thy Cynthio mourns. 
To me it nought avails, since needs I go 
To urge my fate, thro' this sad world of woe ; 
Remov'd far distant from those happy plains, 
Where late I sung amidst the listening swains ; 
Plains ever more belov'd, since all that's dear, 
My friends, my parents, and my love are there. 

In sympathising mood methinks you mourn, 
And anxious wait a truant youth's return. 
Oh ! did my station with my mind agree, 
If e.'er I wander'd, it should be with thee ! 
Than Albion's isle no further would I stray, 
With thee the time would fly too swift away. 



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Then my rough genius would in time refine, 
Acquiring worth, by imitating thine. 
With thee I'd wander o'er th' historic page, 
And view the changeful scenes of ev'ry age ; 
Or, led by thee, the latent paths explore 
Of grave philosophy's extensive lore ; 
Or now, reclining in the sylvan bow'r, 
With tuneful bards enjoy the blissful hour. 
Shakespeare, who speaks the language of the soul ; 
And Milton, soaring o'er the starry pole ; 
Descriptive Thomson, and religious Young, 
Pope, Swift, and Gay, and all the sons of song. 

Delightful scenes ! in which I once had part, 
And still the dear remembrance warms my heart. 



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With long farewell I leave the laurel grove,' 
Where Science and the tuneful Sisters rove ; 
And now prepare to quit this happy isle, 
Whose fruitful vallies with fair Ceres smile. 
Farewell ! and tho' an exile doom'd to roam, 
My heart still lingers at its native home ! 
In midst of Indian groves I still shall find 
The climate only chang'd, and not the mind. 

But hark ! the signal shrill, the boatswain's cry, 

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" All hands unmoor !' the cavern'd rocks reply. 

And mark our chief, " Make haste, your anchor weigh ! 

" Quick, drop your lower sails, and stand to sea!" 



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Adieu, dear land ! old Albion's cliffs, adieu ! 
Britain, farewell ! farewell, my love so true ! 
Here no dark den conceals voracious foes, 
The beach no fierce amphibious monster knows ; 
No crocodile in quest of blood appears, 
And o'er his dying prey weeps cruel tears ; 
No false hyena, feigning human grief, 
Here murders him whose pity brings relief: 
Yet tides, conspiring with unfaithful ground, 
Tho' distant seen, with treach'rous arms surround ; 
Here quicksands, thick as beauty's snares, annoy, 
Look fair to tempt, and whom they tempt destroy. 

From Cambria's shores, O fly ! nor dare to trust 
The faithless people of that savage coast. 



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There seamen oft their hapless fate deplore, 
Who .scape the seas are wreck'd upon the shore. 
Around the beach the fell barbarians stray, 
The vessel rend, and on the cargo prey. 
Some quit the wreck in hopes their life to save, 
And in the billows find a watry grave ; 
While those who haply scape the raging flood, 
But reach the shore by man to shed their blood. 
By others' woe these cruel plund'rers live, 
Subsist by rapine, and by ruin thrive. 
Such are our dangers on Cornubia's coast, 
All foreign ills compar'd with these are lost. 
May Justice then, long slumb'ring Justice, wake, 
And on these cannibals due vengeance take. 



8(3 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

While swift before the wind the vessel flies^ 
To Albion's coast I turn my ling'ring eyes; 
Till, lost in clouds, I can no more behold 
Her verdant hills, and fields of waving gold. 
Now seas and skies our prospect only bound, 
An empty space above, a floating field around. 
What heart but melts to leave the tender train, 
And one short month endure the wintry main ! 
Few leagues remov'd, we long for native shores. 
When the ship tosses, and the tempest roars ; 
Then well this tedious course demands our tears 7 
The hopeless length of three revolving years. 
Full well I know thy sympathetic heart 
In all thy Cynthio's sufferings takes a part ; 
Then arm thyself to hear his tale of woes, 
Which from the tongue of bleeding Memory flows. 



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'Twas midnight hour, and on the placid wave 
Slept the grim storm as silent as the grave ; 
High in the blue expanse the silver moon 
Radiant amidst the lesser planets shone ; 
And, o'er the dusky visage of the night, 
Diffused a pleasing, melancholy light. 
Thro' the smooth flood, by prosp'rous gales impelFd, 
Our stately bark her course triumphant held ; 
Whilst round the lofty sides, in idle play, 
The am'rous waves would curl and pass away. 

Stretch'd on the deck the watch their mates among 
Quaff the full bowl, or tune the mirthful song ; 
Or, circling round the man of stories, press, 
Whose each new wonder makes the former less ; 

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Or fancy-led the wish'd-for port they gain, 
The end of all their labor and their pain. 
Already in th' ideal grasp they hold 
The tender consort, or the parent fold ; 
Each to his wishes blest, will then no more 
The dangers of the faithless deep deplore. 

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Thus, wrapt in full security, they sate, 
And held the visions of the mind for Fate ; 
They thought the present scene would ever last, 
Blind to the future, thoughtless of the past ; 
When, from the weeping south, with humid wings, 
Lo ! furious Auster unexpected springs ; 
In boist'rous rage alarm'd, old Ocean rose, 
And Nature started from her calm repose ; 



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Deep thro' th' aeriel vault the thunders roll, 

And the fork'd lightning darts from either pole. 

Now all the elements in contest join, 

Pale Luna, panic-struck, forgets to shine ; 

And, wrapt in clouds and shrinking from the sight, 

Resigns us o'er to Chaos and to Night : 

The waves no longer now in pastime play, 

Roll soft against the ship, and glide away ; 

But, by the force of the resistless gale, 

To mountains swelPd, the topmast's height assail. 

In vain, observant of the helm, we try'd 
O'er the wild surge the madd'ning bark to guide ; 
In whirling eddies tost, she giddy turns, 
And all the pilot's art and labor scorns ; 



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While helpless we, and impotent to save, 
Drive at the mercy of th' insulting wave. 
The horseman thus, whose fiery steed disdains 
An even course, impatient of the reins, 
Headlong is hurried o'er the distant strand, 
Th' unruly courser mocks his lord's command ; 
Now here, now there, the head-strong rebel flies, 
Nor feels the checking curb, or, feeling it, defies, 
E'en ko the stately bark, in gaudy pride, 
Unruly turns, and dances on the tide. 

Fierce, and more fierce, the southern Demon blew, 
And more incens'd the rising waters grew ; 
The lab'ring hull now stagg'ring to and fro, 
Aloft now mounting, now absorb'd below ; 



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As o'er her decks the whole collected deep, 
Resistless torrent, seems at once to sweep ; 
And thus the sport of winds and waters tost, 
'Tis Providence preserves, or all were lost. 
Grim king of terrors ! heighten'd by our fears, 
Death in a thousand dreadful forms appears ! 
As flashing livid, thro' the gloom of night, 
We view our danger by the thunder's light ; 
Trembling we see, in each devouring wave, 
Our last sad fate, the seaman's watry grave ! 
Now lost to hope, our pray'rs invoke the skies, 
And Heav'n we seek with supplicating cries : 

" Oh ! Source of life, our refuge and our stay, 
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" On thy almighty aid we still rely, 

" And crave thy mercy if we're doom'd to die ! 

" Perchance this storm was sent with healing breath 

" From tainted shores to chase disease and death ! 

" As thro' the stormy seas of life we run, 

" Great Cause of all, thy holy will be done ! 

" 'Tis ours on thine unerring laws to trust, 

a Convinc'd that whatsoever is, is just." 

While we in secret breath'd the fervent pray'r, 
Kind Heaven all-gracious lent a pitying ear : 
High Jove still hears the heart-repenting sigh 5 
Lo ! a brave vessel comes ! relief is nigh ! 

Ah ! hapless Amity ! what now avails 
Thy lofty tow'ring height ! thy spreading sails ! 



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Alas ! wild Ocean is become thy tomb, 

With half the wretched crew within thy womb. 

Oh ! lost to shame ! what language do I hear ? 
Shall idle oaths insult th' Almighty's ear ? 
Misguided men ! are these the thanks ye pay 
For rescue from the perils of the sea ? 
Ungrateful remnant of a fated crew ! 
In vain your brethren perish'd in your view ; 
In vain they fell, if ye not hail the Pow'r 
That sav'd your forfeit lives in that high hour. 

O'er the wide deep the sacred mandate went 9 
The winds were hush'd, and Ocean's fury spent; 
The clouds no more in deluges descend, 
But with the waves their dreadful conflict end : 



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The languid lightnings now innoxious play, 

And harmless thunder distant rolls away. 

? Tis calm, and Hope again in ev'ry breast 
Her seat resumes, (a Heav'n-deputed guest ! ) 
Gives us, so lately numbered with the dead, 
Once more to raise the self-devoted head ; 
And shews in distant view a prosp'rous life, 
The converse of the parent, friend, and wife ! 
Thrice happy then ! Ah ! where would Fancy lead ! 
Our wounds she heals, but soon again they bleed. 
Too flatt'ring hopes deceive my wish no more ! 
Ye waves, if rolling to that happy shore, 
Waft there my sighs, in murmurs tell my woe, 
Receive my tears, and say how fast they flow ! 



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Now thro' the saffron portals of the East 
The rising Sun erects his golden crest ; 
Resplendent issuing as a bridegroom gay, 
To our cheer'd souls announc'd returning Day ; 
When at his bright approach the sable Night, 
With all her train of horrors, took her flight ; 
The placid Ocean smiPd, her peace restor'd, 
And prostrate we the hand of Heav'n ador'd. 

Now Neptune, smiling o'er the azure main, 
Uncurls his angry brow, and checks his rein ; 
His fiery steeds, obedient to the god, 
Compose their rage, and crouch beneath his rod ; 
The floating shell, the grand imperial car, 
Resplendent shone a glitt'ring silver star ; 



70 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Enthron'd in light the god majestic sate, 
His watry subjects crowd his throne of state ; 
The thunder ceas'd, the winds and waves were still, 
And peaceful Silence follow'd at his will. 
Such was the halcyon calm fair Nature chose, 
When Venus from the dimpled waters rose. 

The sea god smiPd, the Tritons now draw near. 
With wonder gaze, and lend a list'ning ear. 
He waves his rod, quick from their humid caves 
The Nereids rise, exulting on the waves ; 
Adown their necks the golden ringlets flow. 
And wanton wave as gentle breezes blow ; 
One more majestic, and above the rest, 
The semblance of the goddess full express'd; 



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With graceful step and blooming cheek, appears 

Another Venus, butt of Hebe's years ; 

And such her features, shape, and graceful air, 

" That midst the fairest she was still most fair ;" 

Her auburn hair in careless ringlets play'd, 

And o'er her snowy bosom cast a shade ; 

" Where'er she moves the vassal waves are seen 

" To yield obsequious, and confess their Queen." 

Some separate the waves, where softly glides 
The furrowing keel across the ocean tides ; 
In curling wreaths they gambol on the main, 
Now bound aloft, now plunge below again ; 
Then circling meet, and the light bark surround, 
While rin^s the air with the shrill clarion's sound. 



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In tuneful lays they hail the grand design, 
While Neptune's sons alternate praises join : 
Now hand in hand with playful joy they spring 3 
And, with the Nereids join'd, in chorus sing. 

God of the seas ! thy potent voice 
Makes e'en the raging waves rejoice ; 
And one strong word of thy command 
Can sink them silent on the strand. 

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But if a Moses wave thy rod, 
The sea divides, and owns its God ; 
The stormy floods their Maker know? 
And pass his chosen armies through. 



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The scaly tribe, throughout the sea, 
A grateful tribute pay to thee ; 
The meanest fish that swims the flood 
Leaps up to hail the Sov'reign Good. 



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The larger monsters of the deep 
On thy commands attendance keep ; 
By thy permission sport and play, 
And proudly cut their foaming way. 



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If God his voice of tempest rears, 
Leviathan lies still and fears ; 
But soon uplifts his nostrils high, 
And spouts the ocean to the sky. 



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Thy glorious pow'r is all ador'd 
Amidst the watry nations, Lord ! 
Shall mariners refuse to raise, 
Bold men ! an anthem to thy praise ? 

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While endless miracles they see, 
Shall they not tune a song to thee ? 
Shall they, while on the flood they ride, 
Forget the hand that smooths the tide ? 



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Anon they plunge amidst the waves, 
And drink of death in watry graves ; 
Yet the surviving few blaspheme, 
Nor own the God that rescu'd them ! 






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Lord, when thou giv'st the signal nod, 
And Nature trembles at her God, 
Have mercy, Lord, tho' men deny, 
Our weakness pity, Lord most high ! 

Soon Belgia's spires, emerging from the flood, 
Piercing the misty air, in prospect stood ; 
In friendly Mosa's spreading arms embrac'd, 
We soon forgot our toils and dangers past ; 
Our trusty anchors from the prow we throw, 
And joyful to the busy city go. 
Here safe beyond our hopes our vows we pay, 
To mighty Neptune, guardian of our way. 



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ig me to my Leonora's arms. 
Whose beauty gladdens, and whose virtue charms f 
Oh ! snatch me swift from these tumultous scenes, 
To where love knows not what affliction means ! 
To where religion, peace, and comfort dwell, 
And cheer with heav'nly rays our lonely cell ! 
To where no ruffling winds, no raging seas, 
Disturb the Muse amid'st her bow'rs of ease ! 
Unknown in public or in private strife, 
Soft sailing down the placid stream of life ; 
Aw'd by no fears, or gnawing cares perplex'd, 
This life-— my gentle passage— -to the next ! 
Yet if it please thee best, thou Pow'r Supreme, 
My bark to drive thro' life's more rapid stream ; 
If low'ring storms my destin'd course attend, 
And billows rage, till my sad voyage end ; 



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Let billows rage, let storms indignant roar, 

I bow submissive, and resign'd— adore ! 

Resign'd, accept, in yarious changes try'd, 

What thou shalt grant, my anchor and my guide ! 

Enough at last, if, thro' a sea of woes, 

I reach that Haven where the just repose. 



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ARGUMENT. 



Appearance of the coast of Holland— Cynthio inquires, and, contrary to his Wishes, finds, 
the East India fleet ready to sail — The pilot gives the signal for sailing — Take our 
departure from the Texel — Arrive in the Downs — Make the famous Pike of Teneriflf— 
Observations on seeing and passing the Cape de Verd isles — Short description of the 
dolphin and flying fish — See the island ofFogo, so called from its having a volcano at the 
top of a mountain — Pass the island of Mayo — Cross the equator— -Intolerable heat and 
succeeding calms — Get the trade winds, and see the Croziers, a constellation observed 
by voyagers on elevating the antarctic or southern pole — Saturday night, the manner of 
spending it — See the Cape birds, which indicate the proximity of the land — -Heave to for 
soundings — The next morning see the Table Mountain at the Cape of Good-Hope— -Arrive 
safe in Table-Bay— -Reflections. 8$c. 



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CANTO SECOMB. 



On Belgia's shores I view, with glad surprise, 
Fair fruits and flow'rs in beauteous order rise ; 
From tree to tree the circling vine extends, 
And with its luscious clusters laden bends ; 
The blooming peach and golden apple vie 
In beauteous tints, to win the roving eye ; 
Here jasmine sheds perfume, and myrtles aid, 
With frequent boughs, to lend a fragrant shade. 



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Yet here, alas ! my cares are but begun, 
A longer, harder course is yet to run ; 
Anxious, I ask if India's annual fleet 
Is sped, and hope their distant course to greet ? 
But Fortune in her purpose still proceeds 
Against my hopes my latest search succeeds ; 
Bids me again pursue my life of pain, 
And drives me ling'ring to the boundless main. 
And now the watchful pilot rose to spy 
The face of heav'n, and the nocturnal sky, 
And listen if a breath of air pass'd by. 
He marks the stars, and notes their various course, 
The Pleiads, Hyads, and their watry force ; 
And both the Bears is careful to behold, 
And bright Orion, star of burnish'd gold ; 



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And when he saw no threatening tempest nigh, 
But a sure promise of a settled sky, 
He gave the sign to weigh ; we rouse from sleep, 
Forsake the pleasing shore, and plough the deep. 

Aurora now, in golden robes array'd, 
With rosy hand dispels the nightly shade ; 
Soft zephyrs gently shake the trembling leaves, 
The rippling surge with playful motion heaves ; 
O'er the slow-rising flood bright sun-beams play, 
The tuneful choir resound their morning lay ; 
Here the sweet lark, upheld so high in air, 
That her shrill strains scarce reach the list'iiing* ear : 
And here the bullfinch, whose mellifluous throat 
With soothing softness mellows ev'ry note ; 



36 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

The thrush, the blackbird, and the linnet vie 

In all the sounds of Nature's melody ; 

The cooing stock-dove stimulates the grove 

With the soft language of impatient love : 

In mutual joy their choral powers unite, 

To fill the soul with transport and delight ; 

While pensive Philomela pours along 

Th' enchanting sweetness of her plaintive song ; 

All Nature's hush'd, not e'en the Zephyr's breeze 

Disturbs her rest, or shakes the trembling trees. 

Adieu ! ye vocal songsters of the grove, 
Ye but recal to mind my absent love ; 
Like you each morn, at break of cheerful day, 
She chants the unpremeditated lay; 



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More sweet, more various were her pleasing strains, 
Than flow'rets scatter'd o'er untrodden plains ; 
More charming too than all the choir of spring ; 
She sung so sweet, methinks she still doth sing. 
Oft to my eyes her lovely form appears, 
And, hark ! her voice soft warbles in mine ears ! 
'Tis fancy all, and now that fancy dies, 
Nor joy, nor Leonora glads my eyes. 

Borne from the Texel, Albion's cliffs we gain, 
Where her fair Downs\ exhaustless wealth contain ; 
To Dover's chalky heights my sight I bend, 
And my last look to thee and Britain send ; 
For constant now the eastern breezes blow, 
And oceans wide beneath our passage flow. 



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The moon propitious sheds her silver ray ? 
And guides our flight pacific o'er the sea. 
For shipwrecks fam'd, Mount Teneriff we spy, 
Known by its tow'ring peak that braves the sky ; 
Far off we hear the billows hoarser sound 
Invade the rocks ; the rocks their groans rebound ; 
The wide waves float upon the yielding sand. 
And roll the dusky tide o'er all the strand. 

The isles we pass, by ancient poets sung, 
When Nature blooni'd, for Nature then was young ; 
Where Truth and Justice held their social reign, 
And Happiness possess'd the peaceful plain. 
Far diff 'rent now these alter'd scenes appear, 
By Superstition aw'd, and sway'd by Fear. 



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Remembrance of our friends goes round, 

" Mistress and wife" in song resound ; 

Whilst Prudence guides our temp'rate joys, 

And decent Mirth our time employs. 

I never felt the stern desire 

Of life to damp the social fire, 

But once the angel Temperance gone, 

And Riot lords it on her throne ; 

When god-like Reason's put to flight, 

Banish'd that intellectual light, 

I curse the folly of the night. 

With pity, but with horror, view 

Th' excesses o'th' Circean crew. 

Behold thy picture, wretched sot, 

Imprinted ne'er to be forgot ! 



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Deform'd each human feature trace, 
With riot stain'd that bloated face ! 
The legs unable to sustain 
The body's weight ! that muddled brain 
Surcharg'd with fumes, and madly brave, 
Would combat with the swelling wave ! 
Read, read ! as in a mirror scan, 
Then ask thyself, " can this be man ?" 

Now turn we from this loathsome sight, 
To objects in the view more bright ; 
A prosp'rous wind, and, by account, 
Again two hundred miles th' amount ; 
The Cape we must be drawing near, 
Sure omen ! flights of birds appear ! 



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And, hark ! direction's giv'n to sound, 
To find if in our reach the ground. 
Here our anxiety I— -the crew, 
Elate with expectation new, 
Eager to know, they crowd the deck, 
And hardly bear the captain's check. 
The fair-ones too, with hope on fire, 
Impatient to confirm desire, 
" What's the event ?-— Well, be it so !" 
Admit we've found no ground below, 
Sufficient still of sea remains, 
To-morrow may requite our pains. 

At length the long-expected birds appear, 
The joyful seamen cry "the Cape is near !" 



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Nor vain their hope ; with the returning ray 
The Table's fleecy summit we survey ; 
To the eternal mound my sight I bend, 
And view fair Afric's far-projecting end. 
All sails we crowd to reach the friendly bay. 
And lose on shore the labors of the sea ; 
Scarce the leaves rustle in the spicy breeze, 
A halcyon calmness broods along the seas ; 
Deck'd seems the world as on its natal day, 
And ev'ry face, alas ! but mine, is gay. 

Oh ! beauteous maid, of ev'ry charm possess'd 
That wins the soul or captivates the breast ! 
As virgin snow-drop, or the lily fair, 
Thy balmy breath perfumes the ambient air ! 



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In vain for them the gen'rous vintage flows, 
The citron blossoms, and the orange glows ; 
Not all the fragrant stores their vales impart, 
Can raise the servile native's drooping heart. 
'Tis Liberty alone exalts the mind, 
Known to that isle so lately left behind. 

Advancing still, new latitudes we gain, 
The constant breezes still the sails maintain ; 
New objects o'er the azure flood surprise, 
And various landscapes deck the distant skies. 
Here the dorado, springing from the wave, 
Elastic tries the wings which Nature gave ; 
Bright in the sun his florid beauties glow, 
While flying he eludes his watry foe. 



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Now Fogo's vapor rising from afar, 
The eye pursues the visionary star ; 
With streaming light the fierce volcano gleams, 

Far spreading o'er the deep its ruddy beams. 

By Mayo's rocky coast we safely run, 

Where the salt harvest ripens to the sun ; 
Still the brave vessel flies before the wind, 
And soon the less'ning spots are left behind. 

But now the Line its torrid influence shows, 
The sky turns gloomy, and the ocean glows ; 
Along the heavens the murky vapors brood, 
Eclipse the day, and darken all the flood. 
No gentle airs allay the sultry heat, 
While Nature droops beneath the sick'ning weight ; 



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The breath grows short, the heart but 
And the dim orb of light forgets to blaze. 
At length the slumb'ring combination breaks, 
The lightning kindles, and the storm awakes ; 
The assembled winds from ev'ry quarter roar, 
The bursting skies a liquid deluge pour. 
Hence in our fears conceaPd our safety lies, 
Borne by the tempest from these faithless skies ; 
The gentle gales return, the heav'ns are bright, 
And the fair Croziers hail the gladden'd sight. 
Now more direct our southern line we trace, 
And plough secure the vast Atlantic space. 
For days I hang suspended o'er the prow, 
Thoughtful of Albion, widely distant now ; 
As oft at night the lovers' vigils keep, 
Thy image tracing on the shining deep. 



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Alas ! what equal object can I find 
To soothe the loss of all I left behind ? 

may'st thou think thy Cynthio's temper suits 
o live with Dutchmen, emulating brutes. 

Shunning tumultuous, frantic noise, 
No friend to Bacchanalian joys, 
In silence hitherto I've pass'd 
A custom to be nam'd at last. 
After the labors of the week, 
Th' industrious man will gladly seek, 
By relaxation, to unbend 
The mind, and hasten to a friend. 
Each Saturday a nightly treat 
With us, as if on shore you'll meet ; 



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Sweet as the western breeze from jasmine bowers, 
Exhaling odors from a thousand flow'rs ! 
But why with things inanimate combine 
Thy radiant beauties, charms almost divine ? 
By Fancy led thy image I pursue, 
" In my mind's eye" thy virtues I review. 
I gaze half frantic on thy winning charms, 
And long to clasp the phantom in my arms ; 
With rapture dwell upon thy blushing cheek, 
As thy bright eyes with soft expression speak. 
In artless ringlets on thy polish'd brow, 
Thy locks resemble shadows on the snow ; 
Thy features, fill'd with majesty and grace 
Conjoint, of beauty's queen display the face. 



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yS . CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Ah ! let me still imagine that I hear 
The pleasing accents murmur in my ear ; 
Accents which speak the virtues of the mind, 
With all the gifts of innocence combin'd ! 
I gaze, and wish, till my fond soul for thee 
Throbs in mv breast, and flutters to be free. 
Virtue, celestial Virtue, gives a charm, 
And shields her votaries from ev'ry harm ; 
From youth draws rev'rence to the hoary head, 
On which distress untimely snow has shed ; 
Endears the youth to venerable age, 
And binds th' unletter'd truant to the sage ; 
Makes discord harmony, and oft supplies 
Bonds of affection strong as Nature's ties. 
" But when youth's living bloom reflects thy beams, 
" Resistless on the view the glory streams ; 



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tl Love, wonder, joy, alternately alarm, 

" And beauty dazzles with angelic charms. " 

Now glowing gems the eastern skies adorn, 
And joyful Nature hails the opening morn ; 
From " Afric's point the goddess bids me sing 
Elysian fields, an ever-blooming spring ! 
While curious seamen range the lofty wood, 
Climb up the steep, or wander near the flood ; 
Or, as they devious tread th' od'rous plain, 
And lose the tedious hazards of the main, 
Pensive the far-fam'd garden I explore, 
Where Earth, all-teeming, sheds her plenteous store ! 
Less- fair the fam'd inclosures sung of old, 
By dragons kept, and rich with living gold. 



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On flow'rs in Europe yet unseen I tread, 

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And trees of wond'rous growth wave o'er my head ; 

The produce here of ev'ry clime is known, 

This gen'rous soil adopts them as her own ; 

Vig'rous the vegetable tribes appear, 

And plants, like nations, grow familiar here. 

Around its soft perfume the citron throws, 
There thro' the gloom the rich pom'granate glows ; 
The golden orange next attracts the view, 
The paler lime succeeds with sickly hue ; 
There the blue fig the purpling grape entwines, 
And with the rose the Persian jasmine joins ; 
Here tow'rs with native grace the slender palm, 
The weeping shrub beneath distils with balm. 



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Lo ! the green Aloe rears her prickly head, 
And the dark Cypress forms a friendly shade f 
The Cocoa there reclines her cluster'd stores, 
And to the taste her milky nectar pours. 
Here, first of fruits ! the rich Anana swells, 
And in delicious taste the rest excels ; 
While thousand birds, of various form and sound, 
Diffuse luxuriant harmony around. 

Here choicest gifts that kindest suns bestow, 
Blush on the ground, or on the branches glow ; 
The teeming trees both fruits and blossoms bear, 
At once to please the taste, and scent the air; 
Pomona here her ev'ry boon might cull, 
And Eve another Eden's apple pull. 

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102 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Nature, profusely good, with bliss o'erflows, 
And still is pregnant, tho' she still bestows. 

Here Flora smiling sees her offspring vie, 
To spread their beauties to the vernal sky ; 
Tho* erst her fleeting race reclin'd and dead, 
At her command they rise and wave their head ; 
Her earliest care, the virgin lilies blow, 
And strew the vales with vegetable snow ; 
The bright carnation and the fragrant rose, 
Their charms, refresh'd with heavenly dews, disclose ; 
Th' unfading Am'ranth rears her purple dye, 
Nor yields to that which paints the morning sky. 
Here od'rous flow'rs of ev'ry varied hue, 
Unknown the hand of Art, spontaneous grew. 



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Industrious bees on richest banquets feed, 
And drink the nectar from the inmost seed : 
While down the craggy rocks and verdant hills, 
From Nature's fountains gush a thousand rills ; 
Thro' many a grateful shade they murm'ring go, 
To mingle with the swelling streams below, 
Which thro' this second Paradise for ever flow. 

The golden fish, array'd in gorgeous pride, 
Reflects the sun-beam on the limpid tide ; 
Behold him there his lovely form unfold, 
His glowing sides bedeck'd with burnish'd gold ! 
Here the wing'd choir, that cleave the yielding air, 
With artful toil their procreant cradles rear, 
Here tend their young, and ply the parent's part, 
Oh ! shame to man ! with more than parent's heart ; 



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While, lightly perch'd upon a neighb'ring spray, 

Each faithful mate attunes the nuptial lay. 

Not brighter colours paint the aeriel bow, 

Than grace their wings, and on their plumage glow* 

From lofty branches, hark ! the am'rous dove 
Melodious murmurs o'er her tales of love ; 
Amidst the stillness of the drowsy night, 
Soft dying strains th' enraptur'd ear invite ; 
While Philomela pensive pours along 
Th' enchanting sweetness of her love-sick song ! 
AH Nature charm'd in silence drinks the strain, 
And fault'ring Echo scarce replies again. 

No truant school-boy here advent'rous roves 
Thro' the thick windings of these happy groves ; 



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With impioos hand, a sacrilege unknown 

To Afric's sons, in this benignant zone ; 
Nor does the rod restrain the giddy boy, 
'Tis Nature's gentler voice forbids destroy ; 
He's taught that cruel, unrelenting souls 
Inhabit climes beneath the distant poles ; 
Forbid it, Heav'n, they glance at Albion's isle, 
That favor'd land, where all the graces smile ! 

Not mine, alas ! the warm poetic lay, 
To paint the beauties which these scenes display ; 
Where by the stream the spreading Banians bow 
Their pendent branches ; these take root and grow 
Around the parent trunk, and far and wide 
Extend their arms, uniting either side. 

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10G CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 



Here sire and progeny familiar join, 

And in one kind embrace for ever twine, 

Behold a stately pile incessant rise, 

In verdant pomp aspiring to the skies ; 

Within a lofty pillar'd shade is seen, 

Hung round with chaplets of unfading green, 

Th' umbrageous leafy vault above, below 

Th' imprisoned riv'lets, murm'ring as they flow ! 

Here the tir'd archer finds a safe retreat, 
A welcome shelter from the noon-tide heat ; 
Here prone reclines, or haply seeks to cool 
His sable limbs amid the crystal pool ; 
While gentle Zephyr, from his fragrant wing, 
Sheds ev'ry odor of the nascent spring ; 



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In safety here he tastes each breeze that plays, 
Till Sol descending shoots obliquer rays. 

Methinks I see, rise from his oozy bed, 
With verdant willows deck'd his hoary head, 
The river god, on silver moss reclin'd, 
His humid tresses waving in the wind ; 
Slow rising on a flow'ry bank he sate, 
The naiads crowd, and on his nod await. 

Lo ! slowly sailing on the passing tide, 
The stately swan moves on in conscious pride ; 
In spotless lustre deck'd and bright array, 
" Like some fair virgin on her bridal day ;" 
More brilliant white her lovely plumage shows, 
More dazzling to the sight than winter's snows. 



10S CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Behold ! with eye intent and solemn pace, 
The fisher-stork pursues the finny race. 
Flamingos gay, whose robes, of various dye, • 
With Juno's birds in brightest colors vie ; 
These and a thousand tenants of the grove 
Inhabit here, and in full safety rove. 
No fowler here his subtle art employs, 
No European glutton here destroys ! 
Here Freedom reigns— -the universal cry, 
The general hail, " Increase and multiply ! ,! 

The verdant pastures far extended lie, 

And yield the grazing herd a rich supply* 
Long may thy stately race the lords remain, 
Half-reas'ning elephant, of this wide plain ! 



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On yon fat herbage lusty bullocks feed, 
And ah ! devouring man, for thee they bleed ! 
In these deep shades the deer untroubled stray, 
And the sly apes their mimic gambols play ; 
Up the steep hill ascends the nimble roe, 
And goats, on pendent rocks, elude the foe ; 
While the wild horse, impatient of the rein, 
Indignant snorts, and scours the vast champaign ; 
A.t length the stream he seeks, with heat oppress'd, 
And cools the fervor of his panting breast. 

Couldst thou, my love, in these blest fields appear, 
Enchanted were the spot, and Eden here ; 
Unmov'd I run the soft delusion o'er, 
And sigh in anguish for Britannia's shore. 

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119 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

What tho' the land in beauteous garb appears, 
And Nature all her loveliest aspect wears ; 
Yet still her charms with sick'ning eyes I see, 
Untasted as they pass, and lost on me ! 
No joys they yield, no pleasing traces leave, 
For what is Paradise without my Eve ? 

On Afric's bank, recumbent in the shade, 
FilPd with the heav'nly prospect, thus I said : 
" Oh ! Art, how poor is all thy vaunted skill ! 
" In vain the bird of Jove shall lend his quill ; 
" Ye who with Nature on the canvass vie, 
" Whose magic labors charm the wond'ring eye, 
a Say, can ye trace the beauties of the stream, 
" Or paint th' effulgence of the solar beam ? 



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u How faint your tint to yonder vivid green ! 
" How weak your touch to feign the living scene ! 
" Those rugged, massive rocks of hoary hue, 
" Those gently-rising hills of sober blue, 
" Those wild cascades, Avhence thickest vapors fly, 
" Those cloud-capt mountains, mingling with the sky ! 
" Could Claude himself, with all his boasted art, 
" The charms of this fair scene at once impart ? 
" Could Poussin's pencil trace the middle ground, 
" Where rocks arise, and swelling torrents sound ? 
*' Add Titian's magic tint, and Guido's air, 
" Correggio's artless grace, and Rubens' care ; 
: Angelic Michael here, immortal Raphael there I" 

Yet far from me darraign the pow'r of Art, 
She who at once can raise and mend the heart ! 



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Rude and untaught the savage Indians roam 
From cave to cave, nor find a peaceful home ; 
Unknown to all the charities of life, 
Expert alone in wild unsocial strife ; 
Strangers to all the comforts of the mind, 
All that or graces or endears mankind ; 
Superior only to the brutal race, 
And all their knowledge but the wild to trace ! 

Look forward ! see the cultivated fields, 
Compare with these what fallow Nature yields ! 
Behold yon proud imperial spires arise, 
Whose lofty summits emulate the skies ! 
The winding bay, with waving streamers crown'd, 
And all the pride of commerce spread around ! 



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The force of Art this wide creation shows. 
To her e'en Nature's self her bounty owes ; 
For Art is Nature from all dross refin'd, 
The pure effulgence of the heavenly Mind. 

Now lengthening shadows speak decline of day, 
And sober Twilight, in her mantle grey, 
O'erspreads the fading land and silver main, 
And drowsy Night resumes her murky reign ; 
Save where the flies of fire their lamp illume, 
And shed a show'r of sparks across the gloom. 

Forth from their dens, impatient of delay, 
The savage monsters prowl in search of prey : 
Here stalks the shaggy monarch of the wood, 
The wild his own, all nature is his food ; 

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114 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

He rears his mane, and rolls his fiery eyes, 
At his approach the boldest rival flies ; 
He roars-— the desert trembles wide around, 
And the far-distant hills repeat the sound ; 
The quarry seiz'd, the tawny tyrant sped, 
The lesser murd'rers riot in his stead : 
The bloody panther and the ruthless pard, 
And all the cries of rapine now are heard, 

Mysterious Providence ! thy ways are just, 
Beyond our ken, weak reptiles of the dust ! 
Lo ! the green serpent, from her dark abode, 
Ascends the branch that overhangs the road, 
And, gath'ring up her train, collected lies 
n spiral orbs, and rolls her glaring eyes ! 



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In wait she lies upon the secret spray, 
Then darts destruction on the heedless prey ; 
When gorg'd with food in vain she tries to rise, 
And falls herself in turn a sacrifice. 
The nightly prowlers, at approaching day, 
Fly to their dens, and scour in haste away ; 
Laborious man, with mod'rate slumber blest, 
Springs joyful to his toil from downy rest. 

" Hail ! Sov'reign Goodness ! all-productive Mind ! 
u On all thy works Thyself inscrib'd we find ! 
" How difFrent all ! how variously endow'd ! 
" How great their number ! and each part how good ! 
" How perfect then does the great Parent shine, 
" Who, with one act of energy divine, 
" Laid the vast plan, and fmish'd the design I" 



IIG CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Where'er the pious search my thoughts pursue, 
Unbounded Goodness opens to my view ! 
Nor does our world alone its influence share, 
Exhaustless bounty and unwearied care 
Extend thro' all th' infinitude of space, 
And circle Nature with a wide embrace ; 
The teeming wonders of the deep below, 
Thy pow'r, thy wisdom, and thy goodness show ; 
Here various beings without number stray, 
Crowd the profound, or on the surface play ; 
Leviathan, the mightiest of the train, 
Enormous swims incumbent on the main, 
And foams, and sports, unrivall'd in his reign ! 
All these thy watchful Providence supplies, 
To thee alone they turn imploring eyes ; 



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For all thou open'st thy benignant store, 
'Till Nature satisfy'd, demands no more. 

While this immortal spark of heav'nly flame 
Distends my breast, and animates my frame ; 
To thee my ardent praises shall be borne 
On the first breeze that wakes the blushing morn ; 
The latest star shall hear the grateful sound, 
And Nature in full chorus join around : 
When, full of thee, my soul excursive flies 
Thro' earth, thro' ocean, or the vaulted skies ; 
From world to world, new wonders still I find, 
And all the Godhead bursts upon my mind ! 

Alas ! that heart is sunk which once was gay, 
And Pleasure's syren dreams are fled away ; 

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No scenes amuse me that amus'd before, 
And what delighted once, can please no more. 
Where are the lenient med'cines to impart 
Their balmy virtue to a bleeding heart ! 
Fruitless are all attempts to find relief, 
No cordial here that can allay my grief! 
So strong my anguish, so severe my pain, 
Weak is philosophy, and reason vain ; 
Attempts to curb, but make my passion glow, 
Quicken each pang, and point the sting of woe ; 
Imagination labors still in yain, 
While darkling clouds intoxicate the brain : 
Fancy no sweet ideas can suggest 
To lull the raging tumult of my breast ; 
In vain or mirth invites, or friendship calls, 
Wit dies a jest, and conversation palls ; 



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Nature and Art supply fresh springs of care, 
And each obtruding thought creates despair ! 

The budding plants of variegated hue, 
The blossoms op'ning with the morning dew ; 
The vernal breeze that gently fans the bow'rs, 
The meadows smiling through refreshing show'rs; 
Th' enamelPd garden, where the works of Art 
Give strength to Nature, and fresh charms impart ; 
Where gaudy flow'rs and fruits for ever bloom, 
Rich in array, and pregnant with perfume ; 
All, all in vain with charms united glow, 
To deck the scene and gild the face of Woe : 
E'en when the morning lark ascending sings, 
While joy attunes his voice, and plumes his wings. 



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And each succeeding day is like the past, 
And still I wish the next may be my last ; 
Come then, kind Death, thy sharpest steel prepare, 
Here point thy dart, and snatch me from despair ! 

When lo ! a vision, high in ambient air, 
Cries, " Faith's my name ; I charge thee to forbear ! 

Vile impious wretch ! how dar'st thou to complain, 
" And thus high Heav'n's just attributes arraign ? 
: Henceforth beware, thy plaintive strains suppress, 
" With Christian Patience learn to acquiesce ; 
" Th' instructive voice of Reason calmly hear, 
" And let Religion check the flowing tear : 
" At what the will of Providence assigns, 
* 'Tis Infidelity alone repines.'' 

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122 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 



Thus spoke the voice, while I with fear oppress'd 
And guilt, reclin'd my head upon my breast ; 
The goddess, drawing near, again address'd 
Her speech more mild, in accent soft express'd : 
The wise, who trust in God, disdain to grieve, 
And what their Father sends, content receive ; 
His sharp corrections testify his love, 
And choicest blessings in the end will prove ; 
He sees how man would err without control, 
He wounds the body, but to heal the soul, 
And, by chastising part, preserves the whole. 
Hence, tho' dark low'ring skies and angry gales 
Conspire to raise the storm, and rend the sails ; 
Yet, if calm Reason at the helm preside, 
Thy little bark shall stem both wind and tide, 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 123 



" And adverse currents shall at length convey 
" Thy shatter'd vessel to the realms of day." 

Thus, taught by Faith, how rash it is, and vain, 
For man, for dust and ashes, to complain ; 
My soul, with meek disquietude oppress'd, 
Directs her flight to Heav'n in search of rest, 
And refuge takes (which endless joy will bring) 
Beneath the shadow of th' Almighty's wing ! 
On him I fix my hope, and place my trust ; 
On him, for ever wise, for ever just ! 
And should indulgence suit not his designs, 
Who evil into happiness refines, 
Let due submission make my burden light, 
And may I think " whatever is, is right !" 



124 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA, 

Thus the free bird, when ravish'd from the skies. 
Where all forlorn his lov'd companion flies* 
In secret long bewails his cruel fate, 
With fond remembrance of his distant mate ; 
'Till, grown familiar with a foreign train, 
Resign'd at last the captive pours his strain. 

But now th' untutor'd natives of these plains 
Demand my song, uncouth and barb'rous swains ! 
Scarce human form the squalid figures boast, 
Within, the mental spark in darkness lost ! 
Naked, they stare around with wild grimace, 
Filth is their ornament, their cov'ring grease ! 
When round their limbs the recent hide they throw, 
? Tis garbage makes the Hottentot a beau ! 



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The sooty nymph, with equal trimmings sweet, 
The entrail bracelet dangling to her feet ; 
No shades the flying savage can conceal, 
The lover finds her in the tainted gale ; 
Sues the kind maid his longings to remove, 
And ease at once his hunger and his love ! 
Love, did I say ? alas ! the flame to them 
Is but the lustre of a worthless gem : 
No mental pangs, no fierce desires they know, 
No fancy'd joys, no visionary woe ! 
The Hottentot on Nature's bounty lives, 
And knows no wants but those which instinct gives ; 
In nights of ignorance his moments steal, 
While knowledge heightens ev'ry pain we feel : 
His ready banquet furnish'd from the wood, 
His thirst abated from the neighboring flood ; 

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126 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Content with cheap-bought happiness at home, 
He pities us in search of wealth who roam ; 
Nor would exchange the ease he has in view 
For all the mines of India or Peru. 

Yet tho' these clouds that veil the darkened mind, 
Pierces th' eternal ray that lurks behind ; 
Benighted Reason shews her secret force, 
Dawns in the look, and guides the wild discourse : 
The thoughtful savage upward turns his eye, 
And points to Him that rules beyond the sky ; 
Oft grateful to the stars of Heav'n appears, 
The Sun that warms him, and his body cheers ; 
But chief the * Moon, in which is well express'd 
The fainter beam that lights his gloomy breast. 

* The Hottentots pay a religious veneration to the Moon. 



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So pass my days in unenjoy'd delight, 
Absent from thee, so flies the cheerless night ; 
When, crown'd by mirth, appears the social bowl, 
And the rich C apian grape dilates the soul ; 
No pleasure I, nor joy, from wine can taste, 
Love makes the cordial useless to my rest : 
In musing wrapt— -e'en Belgic wits I see 
Unmov'd, for Laughter flies at thought of thee ! 

But, while I write, the fatal sounds invade ; 
The cannon warns ; behold the signal made ! 
Like kindred waves the busy sailors roar, 
And call the loit'rers off for India's shore ; 
Distant too far, yet farther must I rove 
From Leonora, whom alone I love ! 



128 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

How could I sound the cruel word-—" Adieu !" 
Think what it cost me, for I still am true : 
Were I thro' all the peopled earth to range, 
My heart would still be thine, nor own a change ; 
Affection guides the motions of my soul, 
As the sure needle trembles to the pole ; 
On thee depends the fortune of my life, 
And evil flies the man who calls thee wife, 

The Fates appeas'd shall yet thy goodness see, 
And for thy husband's sake will pity me ; 
At last will give my wearied footsteps rest, 
And bless me with the pow'r to make thee blest ! 
In that fair hope I ev'ry danger dar.e ; 
Thy image is the talisman 1 wear ! 



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A charm, beyond the magic force of art, 
Mix'd with my soul, and treasur'd in my heart. 

Nor thou, chaste fair, to Providence unjust, 
Repine, but in its wise decisions trust ! 
Not those, to whom the cup of joy is giv'n, 
Alone are blest, alone the care of Heav'n ; 
Those happier oft, in its unerring eye, 
Whom pride disdainful views, and passes by ; 
To whom assign'd the nobler task belongs, 
Of Virtue struggling with surrounding wrongs. 
Grateful the pledges of our love survey, 
Think these are sent to chase thy griefs away ; 
Give place to Hope, with each renew'd caress, 
Let the fond triflers soothe thy soul's distress. 

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130 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

E'er yet the fault'ring tongue is touch'd by art, 
Observe their tender thoughts, and frame the heart; 
Their ways direct, their rising manners mould, 
Give them thy truth, a treasure more than gold ! 
So when that Pow'r, who rules the fate of men, 
Shall bring me safe to thy dear arms again ; 
That happy day shall ev'ry grief efface, 
And ev'ry sorrow fly in thy embrace ; 
Each toil, each danger, shall be doubly paid, 
And Life's calm ev'ning set without a shade ! 

To soothe my grief I took a sylvan reed, 
And carv'd on Banian's bark the lover's creed : 
Remembrance dear presents thy vows to me, 
And wakes my muse to tune a song to thee : 



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Forget me not, tho' Fate's decree 

Has torn me from thy bosom, 
And duty calls me far from thee, 

Beyond the Eastern Ocean ! 
My soul shall smile at human grief, 

Or ills that may beset me, 
While this fond hope my bosom cheers, 

That, tho' between us billows roll, 

Thy fetter'd soul, 
Released by Love's resistless pow'r, 

Will sometimes stray 

The pledge to pay, 
Thou gav'st me in the parting hour, 
That thou would'st ne'er forget me. 



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Forget me not, when festive Joy 

Dispels each trace of Sorrow, 
When sparkling Mirth your hours employ, 

One pensive moment borrow, 
To trace the happy hours we've pass'd, 

The scenes where oft you met me ; 
Where, as your lips I warmly press'd, 

And on them breath'd a burning kiss, 

Trembling with bliss, 
I felt your glowing pulse beat high, 

And in your eyes 

Saw Pity rise, 
When, with a broken fault'ring sigh, 

You swore you'd ne'er forget me. 



CY&THIO TO LEONORA. 133 

As o'er old Ocean's foaming surge 

Our lab'ring bark is reeling, 
Tho' wild winds seem to howl my dirge, 

And mock the pangs of feeling ; 
When lightnings glare, and thunders roll, 

And beating torrents wet me, 
This hope shall cheer my drooping soul, 

That, while by raging tempests torn, 

On waves upborne, 
We mount on high, and sink below, 

That you, my love, 

Will faithful prove, 
And oft fulfil the sacred vow, 

That you would ne'er forget me. 

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But should our vessel prove a wreck. 

Or fatal balls fall near me, 
When bleeding on the gory deck, 

With no soft hand to cheer me : 
While from me earthly comforts fly, 

And Death's dark night awaits me, 
Thou'lt have my last expiring sigh, 

Yes ! e'er my spirit soar above, 

To thee, my love, 
'Twill fly to take its last adieu, 

And then prepare 

To meet thee there, 
In the fond hope that vow was true, 

That thou would'st ne'er forget me. 



LEONORA 



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C Y N T H I O. 



ARGUMENT. 



Leonora's uneasiness — Thinks herself slighted in not hearing from Cynthio—Is jealous , 
and fearful lest his affections are alienated from her, and engaged by some other 
object — Reminds him of his plighted vows, and the numerous suitors she refused for 
his sake — Hints obliquely at those personal charms which first captivated and won 
his heart, and begs to say that those charms are not impaired by absence — Urges his 
speedy return, as essentially necessary to her future peace and happiness—Concludes 
with her best xvishes, and anxiously waits his answer. 



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LEONORA to CYNTHIO. 



The choicest health which mortals prove below, 

That health on Cynthio long may Heav'n bestow ! 

How shall my lab'ring thoughts expatiate free, 

When, clear lamented youth, I think on thee ? 

Our social joys are all our bliss below ; 

Alas ! how short is all the bliss we know ! 

Sometimes an intervening distance parts, 

Yet absence ne'er could separate our hearts. 

Did half my fondness in thy breast prevail, 

Tho' winds should sleep, thy sighs would swell the sail ! 



140 LEONORA TO CYNTHIO, 

But, oh ! I rave ! thy bosom feels no pain, 
In mine alone Love's stormy passions reign ! 
Nor, dear disturber of my quiet, say, 
Knowing how ill fond woman brooks delay, 
Still wilt thou form some feign'd excuse to stay ! 
Say not, I pray, the fault rests not with thee, 
But with the winds and the tempestuous sea ; 
Blame not the winds— indeed they roughly blew, 
But 'twas to chide delay, and make thee true. 
Think not they rag'd to cause thy longer stay ; 
They came from me, to bid thee haste away ! 
If, when we meet, I knit my angry brow, 
Blame me not, Cynthio, for thy broken vow ! 
Yet tho' I mean to frown, I shall be dumb, 
My Cynthio else might be in doubt to come : 



LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. 141 



Speed, Cynthio, speed ! ah ! let me once more hear, 
In accent soft, that still to thee I'm dear. 

When from the ship the signal gun was fir'd, 
And the last moment of thy stay expir'd, 
Thou know'st what woe I suffer'd for thy sake, 
Again took leave, and yet again came back ! 
Once more took leave, unwilling to depart, 
Heav'n knows, and thou, with what a heavy heart ! 
Embark'd— as love's last sign, I wav'd my hand, 
Long on the deck as I perceiv'd thee stand, 
And cry'd, (my grief expos'd to public view) 
" Cynthio, farewell ! a long— a long adieu !" 
Hast thou not seen the sportive child, when lost 
The toy on which his heart delighted most, 

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142 LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. 

Fatigu'd with searching, to some corner creep, 
And hide himself, in solitude to weep ? 
In vain the nurse attempts to soothe his mind, 
He still laments for what he cannot find ! 

Then, hadst thou seen how Leonora lay, 
When torn from thee, she wept the live-long day ; 
A love so true might claim triumphant pow'r, 1 

Thy fortune I refus'd, and claim'd no dow'r, 
Nor, Danae like, was caught by golden show'r. 
And witness Heav'n ! the transports of my heart, 
When first I knew my Cynthio bore a part ! 
To me all merit short of thine must fall, 
And Leonora's husband outshine all. 
So on false gems the ignorant may gaze, 
Commend their lustre, and admire their blaze ; 



LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. f43 

But love, like judgment, takes a juster view, 
And marks fictitious lustre from the true ; 
Each object places in a stronger light, 
And guides thy Leonora's faithful sight. 

What tho' thy father's wishes call thee home, 
Love flies when Leonora whispers "Come !" 
If Asia has no pleasures without me, 
Then what is England if depriv'd of thee ? 
Reflect on the return thy passion swore, 
When my press'd lip the dear engagement bore ; 
When tenderness broke all the ties of art, 
And ev'ry look came faithful from the heart. 

Nor have two years of absence chang'd my face, 
Or robb'd thy Leonora of her grace ; 



144 LEONORA TO CYNTHlO. 

Yet if my charms with length'ning absence pine, 

Remember, Cynthio, all the fault is thine ! 

Canst thou in Asia still a truant lie, 

Nor fear thy Leonora's piercing eye ? 

Too weak to thee would all her anger prove, 

Thy sight would soften each resolve to love. 

And must I still thy feign'd excuses hear ? 
Sure, sure thy absence is enough to bear ! 
Must I sustain neglect, accuse delay ? 
'Tis Leonora pleads, then haste away ! 
Alas ! I fear too fatally thou know'st 
The faith I treasure, and the truth I boast ! 
Thou think'st me kind and easy to believe, 
And sin'st anew, that I may still forgive. 



LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. US 



Enormous, Cynthio, were thy faults indeed, 

If I were judge, and thou should'st fail to plead ! 

Yet all the sweet revenge I mean to prove, 

At meeting, is, to vanquish thee in love ! 

And if my fondness causes thy delay, 

Fate bids it cease— -I cannot brook thy stay. 



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C YNTHIO 



TO 



LEONORA. 



CANTO THE THIRD. 



ARGUMENT. 



Cynthio receives letters from England by the outward ships'—Answers Leonora's hind 
inquiries, and endeavours to dispel and quiet all her little tender fears and jealousies- 
Short account of Governor Hornby's country seat, park, and adjacent country- 
Amusements, from its local situation, very limited and circumscribed— Manner of 
living and spending the time— Harvest-home, reaping, and treading out the corn, as 
practised in the patriarchal age — -Ryotts, or husbandmen's song, 8$c. — Short account 
of the European ladies resident in Bombay — A soliloquy — Receive a letter from my 
friend at Madras, with one inclosed from my father, ordering me home again — Take 
my departure with the returning ships, and, after a quick and pleasant passage, 
arrive safe in Old England, 

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CYNTHIO to LEONORA. 



CANTO THIRD* 



You ask me how this Asiatic clime 
Affects my health, and how I pass my time ? 
Debar'd the pleasures of the park and play, 
The hurrying change, the tattle of the day, 
With all that charms the busy and the gay. 
Our bus'ness bounded in a narrow view, 
Our joys are easy, natural, and few. 



152 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

When scorch'd with summer's sultry heat we burn, 
The cooling breeze refreshes in its turn : 
Tir'd with the toils and labors of the day, 
We bless the welcome ev'ning's milder ray. 

Around the board we quaff the social bowl, 
Madeira's gen'rous draughts regale the soul ; 
Its strength the limpid element restrains, 
And cools the thirst which rages in our veins : 
No party strife prolongs the loud debate, 
No " rights of men/' or matters of the state. 
What art may best the rip'ning spice refine, 
Or gain the treasures of the Indian mine ; 
Where voyages with profit may be made, 
And how we may improve our growing trade ; 



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Topics like these the flying hours amuse, 
Nor need we for our mirth our friends abuse. 

If some tall vessel from the British shore, 
By prosp'rous gales, is wafted safely o'er ; 
How does the pleasing news transport our heart, 
We bless the welcome message they impart ! 
O'erjoy'd, the marks of thy lov'd hand I see, 
And kiss with rapture what was touch'd by thee ! 
From cheerful cups, at midnight go to rest, 
Perchance to dream of thee, and to be blest ; 
The vision vanishes with early morn, 
Whilst thousand beauties earth and skies adorn : 
The lively scene, and last night's generous juice, 
The fancy kindle and provoke the muse. 

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IH CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

What tho' no pamper'd viands crowd our board, 
The nat'ral dainties which this isle afford, 
By simple cooks in artless manner drest, * 
Might well enrich the most luxurious feast. 
No wintry blasts deform the fruitful plain, 
But Nature's gifts thro' ev'ry season reign ; 
The various pulse to temp'rate meals invite., 
Supply our wants, not force our appetite. 

The difPrent fruits of distant climates smile, 
And deck with blended charms our happy soil ; 
To crown the board their sev'ral sweets impart, 
And ev'ry season forms the rich dessert. 

By a vast ridge of circling mountains bound, 
The lofty Gauts half form a spacious round ; 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. ]5S 

Out-stretch'd immense the heaving ocean lies, 
And with new objects still delights the eyes. 
In gentle winds St. George's streamers play, 
At once the pride and terror of the sea, 
Which to contending nations give the law, 
And keep, in Britain's name, the world in awe ; 
While, to enrich the view, town answers town, 
Ships crowd the harbours, hills the forests crown. 

Thither retiring from the noon-tide heat, 
We find refreshment and a cool retreat. 
Each rural object gratifies the sight, 
And yields the mind an innocent delight. 
Plants of all shades the various scene adorn, 
Here the fat olive, there the waving corn ; 



IM CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

When sultry Phoebus now has done his part. 
And harvest ripen'd asks the hand of Art ; 
The sun-burnt Ryotts hasten to the fields, 
And reap the plenteous crop that Ceres yields ; 
Whilst emulation swells each heaving breast, 
To pass each other and excel the rest. 
Dispatch'd their work, upon the ridge they play, 
And pass in harmless mirth the hours away : 
To merry Wang,* and to the cheerful song,i 
In antic steps, fantastic dance along. 



* The Jews-Harp, or Merry Wang ; so called by the lower class of natives, who are fond of 
placing and dancing to it. 



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HARVEST-HOME. ' * 
_ At 

THE RYOTTS; 

OR, 

ASIATIC HUSBANDMEN'S SONG, 



Ryotts, see ! the golden grain 
Fill the bosom of the plain ! 
Each your sickle freely wield, 
Soon we'll clear each ripen'd field. 
A Ryott's life's a life of pleasure, 
Singing, laughing, without measure ! 



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158 THE REAPERS' SONG. 

When each field is cut away, 
Thus we hold our holiday, 
With era ura era chang, 
To the merry merry Wang ! 



Thus we dance upon the green, 

Mirth in ev'ry face is seen ; 

To merry Wang and cheerful song, 

In playful steps we dance along. 

From pleasures sweet to pleasures born, 

We gaily welcome in the morn ; 

Thus, when each field is cut away, 

Merrily hold our holiday, 

With era ura era chang, 
To the merry merry Wang ! 



THE REAPERS' SONG. no 



3, 



On the merry Wang we play, 
Till the blushing streaks of day 
Redden all the hills around, 
To warn us from our dancing ground ; 
Then to his hut each reaper goes, 
To steal an hour of soft repose ; 
Singing of his mirthful cheer, 
And the charms of Country Beer, 
With era ura era chang, 
To the merry merry Wang ! 



COUNTRY BEER in INDIA. 



A SONG. 



Fill a bumper, no delay ! 
How we relish night and day ! 
Who can all thy joys declare ? 
Oh ! the charms of Country Beer ! 



Hark ! from glassy prison free, 
Joyful sound to longing me ; 
See ! behold this mantling cheer ! 
Oh ! the charms of Country Beer ! 



COUNTRY BEER IN INDIA. Hi 



Not the dainties of the board. 
Or the banquet of a lord, 
Can excite my wish or care, 
If depriv'd of Country Beer ! 

Bacchus, rosy god of wine ! 
Freely, gladly, I resign. 
Boy, another bumper here ! 
Health to all in Country Beer ! 

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162 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Now round and round, with never-weary'd pain. 
The trampling steers beat out th' abundant grain. 
In verdant pastures interspers'd between, 
The lowing herds and bleating flocks are seen ; 
The setting sun just gilds yon mountain's brow, 
The herds with full-distended udders low ; 
The tawny herdsmen tell their rural tales, 
Whilst foaming nourishment supplies their pails. 
Close at the foot of yon descending hill, 
Where those tall trees the bounded prospect fill, 
Rich Love-dale lies, and Hornby is its lord ; 
His fair domains a thousand charms afford. 

Here balmy dews each morn refresh the soil, 
And monsoon-rains reward the planter's toil. 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. +z 

His spacious park with various trees is grac'd, 
All void of art, yet each in order plac'd. 
Here pleasing vistas strike th' observing eye, 
And on each side the well-stock'd fish-ponds lie. 

Deck'd with rich plumes the feather'd tribes appear, 
In liv'ry gay thro' all the varied year ; 
The vocal songsters of each distant grove 
Assemble here to tell their tales of love ; 
Whilst I, of all that I hold dear bereft, 
Forlorn remain, a sad spectator left ! 

From whence this sigh, ah ! wherefore did I roam, 
And leave those joys which spring from thee at home ? 
To lose my grief in fond poetic dream, 
I carv'd on Banian's bark this tender theme : 



L64 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 



Tell me, ye grots, ye fountains, and ye rills. 
Where Leonora and her Cynthio stray'd ; 

Why now no rapture my sad bosom fills, 
Whene'er I wander in the silent shade. 

Fair Leonora then did grace my side ; 

In her sweet converse how the moments flew ! 
When, so much blest, the time did swiftly glide, 

Whilst from her lips I virtuous precepts drew. 

The solitary woods, the rural haunts, 

Where Contemplation holds her lonely reign ; 

Where Philomela melancholy chants, 

And in soft numbers charms the list'ning swain. 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. US 



There Leonora oft with me hath stray'd, 

When Dian's beam illum'd the cloudless sky ; 

We bent our steps to reach the distant glade, 
Echo's retreat, remote from human eye. 

There, join'd by social sympathy of heart, 

Our thoughts, our wishes, our desires the same ; 

Our souls were strangers to each selfish art, 
Sure such an union graces Hymen's name ! 

Ye lofty Mangoes, and huge Banian trees, 
Th' abode of Zephyrs and of turtle doves; 

Where Asiatic shepherds, stretch'd at ease, 

Attend their browsing flocks, and tell their loves. 

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j66 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Say, can you soothe a sad and troubled breast, 
A heart that mourns the absence of its mate ? 

Your shades, alas ! can give the body rest, 
But cannot alter the decrees of Fate. 

Under your umbrage I may find repose, 

Screen'd from SoPs scorching rays and sultry heat ; 
Ills, poignant ills, torment— ah ! but for those, 

Here should I find my happiness complete. 

These bow'rs well suit poor solitary Grief, 
To speak the language of an aching heart ; 

Sweet Echo's sympathy may give relief, 
5 Tis kind in Nature thus to take a part. 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. i£7 



The tender bleating flocks, and herds that low, 
Recall remembrance of those happy hours, 

When, blest in Innocence, unknown to Woe, 
Like them we fondly cropt the rising flow'rs. 

O'er-head the constant turtles bill and coo, 
Their soft endearments echo thro' the grove ; 

Methinks they speak, as we were wont to do, 
In the sweet language of connubial love. 

With mutual joys their choral pow'rs unite, 

To speak their loves, they know no other theme ; 

Unless, when absent, what would most delight, 
Should prove, like mine, an empty, airy dream. 



168 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 



No pleasure find I in this cheerful scene ; 

While she is absent, pleasure is no more ! 
The charms are vanish'd of th' enamePd green : 

Her presence only can my joy restore. 



Thro' the rich valley Belvidera strays, 
And wantonly in light meanders plays ; 
Then, washing rich Capella in its way, 
It joins with glad precipitance the sea ; 
Here oft on special festivals we meet, 
Our laws and well-earn'd liberties to greet, 
By William rescu'd, and in George complete : 
The well-dress'd nymphs in beauteous crowds resort, 
Such might add lustre to the British Court. 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA, !6 9 



The trembling Muse, struck with a distant awe, 
So bright a circle scarce presumes to draw : 
Fair Gowland's presence first attracts the eye, 
Tempting with sweetness awful majesty ; 
Yet with such easy grace her actions flow, 
She seems her higher merit least to know : 
With equal wonder and delight we trace 
The blooming charms which dwell in Anna's face ; 
Here Nature does her choicest gifts dispense, 
Bestowing beauty, wit, and innocence. 
Thank, lovely Hereford ! thy mother's care, 
That thou in ev'ry female praise may'st share ! 
The graceful Price, like chaste Diana tall, 
Above the rest adorns the shining ball. 
Gay Morley's sprightly and engaging mien 
Has charms too dang'rous to be safely seen. 



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170 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

In amiable Runell conjoin'd we find 
A beauteous person with a virtuous mind. 
The sister Bachelors, a lovely pair, 
With modest, easy, and becoming air, 
Are so completely form'd, 'tis hard to tell 
In ev'ry virtue which does most excel. 
Here Tryon us'd to grace the dance, till Fate 
Unkind depriv'd her of her much-lov'd mate ; 
She now, retir'd, the silent hours emploj^s 
In secret griefs, nor shares the public joys. 
Numbers beside, in ev'ry state of life, 
Excel, as Mother, Daughter, Sister, Wife ! 

And thou, my soul's delight ! ask thy fond heart, 
If mine can rove, if e'er from thee depart ? 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. m 

How could I thus, of all thy charms possess'd, 
Consent to stray, and be no longer blest ? 
Ah ! either own my love for ever thine, 
Or give me back that constant heart of mine ; 
I then both hand and fortune can bestow, 
Thou hast the one, then take the other too. 

O ! how unjust are all thy tender fears ! 
Dispel thy doubts, dry up thy jealous tears. 
If e'er with such intent I quit this isle, 
And guilty thus, thy love, thy truth beguile, 
May the first wave revenge thy cruel woe, 
And plunge me headlong to the shades below ! 

Resume thy smiles, foresee the rising gales, 
Fair for the British coast distend the sails; 



172 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

Oh ! Neptune ! in whose realms I dar'd so late, 
Thou, the disposer of my hapless fate ; 
Propitious lend thine aid, jio proud design 
Presumptuous dares to tempt thy pow'r divine ! 
From passion pure these dauntless efforts flow, 
Beauty to cheer, and succour helpless Woe. 
Oh ! lovely maid ! within this constant breast 
Long has thy image dwelt, by Love impress'd ; 
To view thy matchless charms, thy favor gain, 
Once more I brave the terrors of the main ; 
Ne'er can I leave the prize by perils won, 
Dearer to me than all beneath the sun ; 
With thee once more I'll rest, renounce all care, 
Partake thy griefs, and all thy pleasures share. 



CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 173 



Ye winds, presiding o'er the pathless seas, 
Who raise the waves, and who at will appease ; 
Propitious breathe upon our swelling sails, 
And speed our passage to the Queen of Isles ; 
To Albion's isle, kind Love, direct the way, 
Safe to that shore a faithful swain convey ! 
The gentle gales their flagging force renew, 
And now the wish'd-for harbour is in view. 

Thrice blest at last in all the joys I taste, 
So well repaid for ev'ry danger past ; 
Two altars in this happy land I'll raise, 
Just monuments of gratitude and praise ; 



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174 CYNTHIO TO LEONORA. 

This to the God of Love,, whose pow'r divine 
My passion gave, and sped the good design; 
To Neptune that, who gracious smooth'd the sea, 
And safe convey'd me to all bliss in thee. 






• 



LEONORA 



TO 



Y N T H I O. 



LEONORA to CYNTHIO, 



ON HIS RETURN 



FROM AN UNFORTUNATE VOYAGE. 



No more, fond partner of my soul, 
At disappointment grieve ; 

Can flowing tears thy fate control, 
Or sighs thy woes relieve ? 

Adversity is Virtue's school, 

To those who right discern ; 

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178 LEONOftA TO CYNTHIO. 

Do thou observe each painful rule, 
Arid each hard lesson learn. 

When wintry clouds obscure the sky, 
And heav'n the earth deforms | 

If fix'd the strong foundations lie, 
The castle braves the storms. 

Thus, fix'd on Faith's unfailing rock, 
May'st thou endure a while 

Misfortune's rude impetuous shock, 
And glory in thy toil ! 

Ill fortune cannot always last ; 
But if it should remain, 



LEONORA TO CYNTHIO. 179 

Yet dost thou ev'ry moment haste 
A better world to gain : 

r 

Where Calumny no more shall wound, 

Or faithless friends destroy ; 
Where Innocence and Truth are crown'd 

With never-fading joy. 

Let us, my love, still kiss the rod, 

We've better things in view ; 
Next to my hopes in thee, my God, 

My soul looks up to you ! 









AN 



EPITHALAMIUM 



ON 



DOMESTIC HAPPINESS 



AND 



CONNUBIAL LOFB* 



ADDRESSED TO 



CYNTHIO and LEONORA, 



BY A FRIEND. 



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EPITHALAMIUM, S$c. 



Ye pairs, the happiest of your kind, 
Whom Hymen's gentle fetters bind 

In soft and silken bands ; 
Say what exalted pleasures wait 
True lovers in the nuptial state, 

Who mingle hearts and hands ? 

Oh ! come, instruct the stranger Muse, 
Lest she the sacred theme abuse 



1S4 EPITHALAMIUM. 

f 

In her unhallow'd strain! 
She, whose best guises are but faint, 
Unpractis'd, who can hardly paint 

The dear, the blissful chain ! 



Blest pair! who, knit in friendship, know 
The joys that each on each bestow, 

While loving and belov'd ; 
If there be bliss beneath the skies, 
It must from love, fond love, arise, 

By friendship firm improv'd. 

Nor theirs can higher rise below, 
Whose minds one kindred passion know, 



EPITHALAMIUM. 185 



And feel their softest pow'r ; 
What happy scenes they outward view ! 
Within, what heart-felt raptures new ! 

Increasing ev'ry hour ! 

Their joys in one bright channel roll, 
The tend'rest sympathy of soul 

Reciprocal they prove ; 
Each bosom burns with mutual fire, 
And ev'ry wish is pure desire, 

And ev'ry look is love. 

Oh ! transport not to be express'd ! 
Alternately each ravish'd breast 

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1S« EPITHALAMIUM. 



What kind emotions seize ! 
While heart meets heart, each finding still 
Will happily preventing will, 

Both ever pleas'd to please. 

Oh ! Cynthio, oh ! my friend, for you 
The Muse this lovely portrait drew, 

To whom she dares appeal ; 
While with thy Leonora blest, 
If joys like these thy happy breast 

Does most sublimely feel. 

What tender transports touch thy heart ! 
Thro' all thy soul soft thrillings dart, 



EPITHALAM1UM. 187 



And ev'ry pow'r employ ; 
While gazing now with sweet surprise, 
Thou drink'st enraptur'd from her eyes 

* 

The very soul of joy ! 

But, oh ! amidst this scene to see 
A bright, a smiling progeny, 

Must still the bliss improve ! 
To what new extacies awoke 
Thy ravish'd heart, when first 'twas struck 

With a parental love ! 

How inexpressible the joy, 
When I beheld the lovely boy, 



188 EPITHALAMIUM. 



And clasp'd him in my arms ! 
Each op'ning feature pleas'd to trace ; 
Here, dawning all a father's grace ; 

There, all a mother's charms ! 



Thus far, tho' with unskilful voice, 
The Muse to thee has sung of joys 

That not to her belong ; 
Yet haply, if kind Heav'n ordain, 
Experience soon may guide the strain, 

And Hymen teach the song. 

Ah ! could thy friend but find a fair, 
Like thine, well form'd his bliss to share, 



EPITHALAMIUM. 189 



From such a state that springs ; 
Then might he hope, nor hope in vain, 
Like happiness with thee to gain, 

And taste the joys he sings. 

But ah ! amidst the nuptial kind, 
Two kindred breasts how rare to find, 

That equal measure beat ! 
Yet where on Hymen Love attends, 
And Friendship her endearment lends, 
'Tis happiness complete. 

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ON 



A MATTER OF FACT 



WHICH HAPPENED IN THE 



EAST INDIES, 



ON THE 



COAST OF COROMANDEL. 



ON A MATTER OF FACT, S$c. 



Where orient India spreads her wide domains, 
And tawny shepherds woo their sable loves ; 

Where Ganges' streams enrich the fertile plains, 
Or gently murmur thro' the spicy groves : 

The umbrage of a Banian tree beneath, 
While Sol retiring shot a slanting ray ; 

Where Echo dwells, and gentle Zephyrs breathe, 
A mourning youth in secret silence lay. 

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194 ON A MATTER OF FACT. 

Admir'd Alexis, pride of happier climes ! 

Reclin'd in musing sadness on the ground ; 
He sung of other fortunes, other times, 

And bade the neighb'ring hills return the sound. 

Thrice had he cross'd the equatorial line, 

And thrice thro' polar ice his bark had pass'd, 

Where various deaths in dread array combine, 
And dar'd the rising surge and furious blast. 

But cares still follow o'er the trackless deep, 

Thro' ev'ry land their constant stream will flo\^ ; 

Unhappy youth ! thy sorrows still thou'lt weep, 
No change of place can root out heartfelt woe. 



ON A MATTER OF FACT. iQi 



For his lov'd Laura without cease he sigh'd, 

Her heav'nly charms had won his artless youth ; 

" Ah ! much lamented fairest one !" he cry'd, 
" Pattern of virtue, constancy, and truth ! 

" Oh ! snatch'd for ever from these longing arms, 
" What hoards of treasure can thy loss repair ! 

" What promis'd bliss can match thy heav'nly charms, 
" Source of delight, and fairest of the fair ! 

■, " To me in vain would Indus pour his store, 

" Or Afric's barb'rous sands yield up their gold ; 
:c A far more precious treasure I deplore, 
" Than orient Ind or sultry Afric hold. 



196 ON A MATTER OF FACT. 

" For me in vain the Zephyr's gentle wing 

" Skims o'er the flow'rs in eastern pride that bloom ; 

"For me in vain yon sweet Ananas spring, 

" And groves of spices shed their rich perfume. 

u Ah me ! in distant climes bright Laura lies ; 

(t 'Twas for my sake in early youth she fell ; 
" For her lov'd swain in death she clos'd her eyes, 

" And, full of sorrows, bade the world farewell ! 



" But, Ganges, thou my fated corse receive, 
" My last remains and sad memorial keep ; 

" For me no parent's tender heart shall grieve, 

" Nor sorrowing bride, nor mourning widow weep !' : 



ON A MATTER OF FACT, 107 



He said ; and, fearless o'er the murm'ring flood, 
His desp'rate eyes in solemn silence roll'd ; 

When sudden a bright beauteous form he view'd, 
Which aw'd his soul, and all his pow'rs control'd, 

5 Twas Laura's self, whom misreporting Fame 
Had rumor'd the cold tenant of the tomb ! 

'Twas Laura's self, who cross'd the seas to claim 
The meed of love, array'd in Beauty's bloom ! 

Silent a while he gaz'd upon her charms, 
His hopes and fears in ev'ry look express'd ; 

Then sudden clasp'd her in his eager arms, 
His love, his life, his happiness confess'd ! 

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198 ON A MATTER OF FACT. 

Thus, taught by Heav'n, to Heav'n resign'd he bends, 
Resolv'd by rashness to offend no more ; 

With Laura bless'd, his fate with hers he blends, 
And joyful bears his prize to Albion's shore ! 



EXPLANATORY NOTES 



TO THE 



PRECEDING POEM. 



EXPLANATORY NOTES, &c. 



FROM A SON TO A FATHER. 



Ocrinum, the North Foreland. 
Danmonium, the coast of Devonshire. 

Now direful Stilly mocks the straining sight, 
And her faint fires send forth a dying gleam. 

Scilly, a cluster of islands which lie 9 or 10 leagues to the westward of the Lizard, on the coast 
of Cornwall. The rocks of Scilly have often proved destructive to ships entering the English 
Channel, in thick hazy weather, or on dark nights. Sir Cloudesley Shovel had the misfortune to he 
wrecked on these rocks with three ships of the line, and every soul perished. In the island of St. 
Mary's is the light-house. It appears to great advantage, as it stands on very high land, and is said 
to be a very fine column. The sash-lights are 1 1 feet 6 inches long, and 3 feet 2 inches broad. 

Newfoundland, a large island lying on the eastern coast of North America, between 47" and 52 a 
N. Lat. famous for its banks, on which the cod-fish feeds. It is observed that thirteen or fourteen 
thousand seamen are employed in these fisheries. 

Nantucket, an island in North America, south of Cape Cod ; a whale fishery is carried on here. 
Lat. 41° N. and 70° W. Lon. 

Sayuly Hook, a small island near New Jersey in North America, about 7 miles south of Long 
Island. It was formerly a peninsula, but the sea broke through the isthmus, and of course it 
remains an island. This happened about the year 1777. 

Col. Campbell lost his life by a tiger in the East Indies, while on a shooting party in the woods 
©p the coast of Coromandek 

Dearest shade, come down, 



And hover o'er me with thy angel ivings . 

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MOTES OJV CANTO FIRST. 



[Lest any of my readers should be unacquainted with the names of some of the inferior officers' duty, b)c. and tlic 
technical terms inseparable from navigation, I have hete endeavoured to explain all those I make use of. J 



The Boatswain is an inferior officer selected from the most experienced seamen, and whose 
particular duty it is to superintend the cordage, rigging, &c. and muster the ship's company when 
ordered by the commanding officer ; in short, he is a necessary man on alloccasions. He wears 
his long clothes, and is distinguished by his badge of office. A silver breast-plate, with the figure 
of the ship engraven thereon, hangs round his neck, suspended by a silver chain, with an appro- 
priate whistle. All the duty on ship-board is done by the modulation and variation of this pipe. 
He has two mates to assist him, who have each their distinguishing pipe or whistle. This prevents 
noise and confusion amongst the seamen, who are obliged to be silent on all occasions of duty. 
It is only used in the navy, and on board the East India ships. 

Hands, or all hands ; a term used when speaking of the seamen, or ship's crew. 

Weigh, the order for getting the anchor up. 

Unmoor, to get both anchors up, in order to depart from any port or harbour, to proceed on 
the voyage. 

Yet tides, conspiring with unfaithful ground, 

Tho' distant seen, with treacherous arms surround; 

There quicksands, thick as Beauty's snares, annoy, . ■ 

Look fair to tempt, and whom they tempt destroy. 

Alluding to the quicksands on the Lincolnshire coast. It is remarkably low land, and below the 
level of the sea- When the tide of flood advances, it is so rapid as to carry every thing before it ; 
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the land side, to which of course he flies to avoid the impending danger of the sea, there is nothing 
but bogs and quicksands ; so that death is inevitable for both man and beast either way. There is 
a guide-post fixed at each end of the passage ; notwithstanding which, many, by being too adven- 
turous, have lost their lives. 

From Cambria's shores, fiy ! nor dare to trust 
The faithless people of that savage coast. 

The coast of Cornwall, where it has been known, after shipwreck, that the poor mariner, having 
reached the shore, has been deprived of the feeble remains of life, for the sake of his watch and 
money ! The security of the plunderers depends on the darkness of the night ; and should any 
dead body be found mutilated, it is generally conjectured that some accident has happened prior 
to the body's reaching the shore, and by this means they escape suspicion and detection. My fair 
readers will stop here, and drop the sympathetic tear over the memory of him, who perhaps has 
many times bled to defend the very island on which he thus lost his life. 

What heart but melts to leave the tender train, 
And one short month endure the wintry main! 

Alluding to the grief of some of my brother seamen, at parting from their wives and families for 
that short space of time. What then must be my feelings, when their short month is exchanged for 
three long tedious years ? 

Bark, a name given to any ship or vessel. 

Watch ; the ship's crew are divided into two, called by the seamen the starboard and larboard 
watches ; these do the necessary duty of the ship four hours each alternately ; or, as Falconer 
beautifully expresses it, 

" While some the watch of night alternate keep, 
" The rest lie buried in oblivious sleep." 

Topsails, are large square sails, of the second degree in height and magnitude, and distinguished 
according to their respective masts; as, the fore topsail, main topsail, &c. 

Helm, or Rudder, the governing principle by which the ship is managed anjl conducted through 
the ocean ; but in a storm its governing quality is greatly diminished, the violence of the gale 
allowing only a small quantity of sail to be spread, and sometimes none at all. 

Canvass. This word is frequently used b}- seamen when speaking of the sails ; as, " we bent a 
" new suit of canvass^ or, " a new suit of sails " 



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God of the seas ! thy potent voice 
Makes e'en the roaring waves rejoice; 
And one strong word of thy command 
Can sink them silent on the strand. 

I have introduced this little imagery of Neptune and the sea nymphs, by way of delineating, in 
more striking colours, the ingratitude of-the two surviving seamen ; and have adopted the hypothesis 
of the ancient Heathens, who allowed a multiplicity of inferior deities, as presiding over the works 
of creation, and conducting the disigns of Providence, or the Supreme Jove. 

Neptune and Amphitrite, with an appropriate train of tritons and sea nymphs, shocked at the 
impiety of the two surviving seamen, and delighted with the contrast of the Danish captain and his 
crew, in order to shew these unthinking men how culpable they were, and that, however they 
might flatter themselves, their conduct was noticed and condemned by the god of the sea. The 
tritons and sea nymphs begin their hymn to the deity, with an invocation to the sea and the 
inhabitants thereof, and point out, that even the winds and waves join with them in the universal 
chorus of praise to the great Creator. Thus shewing these degenerate men, that they were the only 
rebels nature had produced, as every thing else answered the end for which it was created ; con- 
cluding with a supplication to Neptune, lest, in his anger at their impiety, he should punish the 
innocent with the guilty. 

The stormy floods their Maker know, 
And pass his chosen armies through. 

Alluding to the children of Israel's passage through the Red Sea, (as it is called) though it is no 
redder than other seas. The sands are red indeed ; yet this is insufficient to warrant that epithet. 
King iErithroes, son to Perseus and Andromeda, in old times reigned here ; and his name, which 
signifies red, probably gave the denomination to this sea. 

Here safe beyond our hopes, our vows we pay 
To mighty Neptune, guardian of our Way. 

On Sunday, the day following our miraculous and providential escape from a watry grave, Barand 
Jacobs, (for that was the name of the captain of the Young Rosette) ordered his ship's crew to clean 
themselves and assemble on the quarter deck, where he performed divine service and chanted the 
Psalms of David, as is done in our cathedrals, ascribing all praise to God for our preservation, and 
returning public thanksgivings for being permitted to be the humble instrument of his mercies His 



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Taehaviour throughout the whole of our acquaintance convinced me that this was his general conduct, 
I have caught him, when he thought I was not observing him, with his eyes fixed upon me, expres- 
sive at once of pity and concern. This shewed the good man's feelings, and evinced a delicate sen- 
sibility and tenderness of mind, which either he could not, or was unwilling to express. He knew 
the joys of wedded love; for he informed me he had a wife and four children at home, and took 
great delight in entertaining me with many little anecdotes concerning them. 

Barand Jacobs ! if this book by any accident ever meets thy eye, thou wilt see at least that I am 
grateful for all the favors thou didst lavish on an unfortunate Englishman, who, truly sensible of thy 
merits, will strive to imitate thy great example ! and be assured of this, that, while I have breath in 
my body, I will revere thy memory ! The token thou gavest me at parting, by way of memento, lies 
before me at this moment; and although trifling in itself, I consider it as a treasure of inestimable 
value, since it serves to call to my remembrance my happy deliverance from shipwreck, as well as the 
many proofs thou hast given me of thy affectionate regard and disinterested friendship ! 

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Tlie isles we pass, by "ancient poets sung, 

When Nature bloom' d, for Nature then was young. 

The Grand Canaries, formerly called the Hesperides, or Fortunate Isles, in the Atlantic Ocean, 
near the continent of Africa. They are seven in number, subject to Spain. 

Now Fogo's vapor rising from afar, 
Tlie eye pursues the visionary star. 

Fuego, or Fogo, one of the Cape de Verd isles in the Atlantic Ocean, appears at sea like one single 
mountain. There is a volcano at the top of it which burns continualby, and frequently pours out tor- 
rents of brimstone and fire. 

By Mayo's rocky coast we safely run, 
Where the salt harvest ripens to the sun. 

Mayo, or May, another of the Cape de Verd isles, and where the salt water, by beating against 
the rocks, assisted by the excessive heat of the sun, crystalizes, and becomes pure rock salt, without 
any assistance of art to bring it to greater perfection ; and from hence arose the poetic licence I took 
in calling it a salt harvest. 

But now the Line its torrid influence shows, 
The sky turns gloomy, and the Ocean glows. 

The Equator, or Equinoctial line. On entering the southern latitude we saw the Croziers, a con- 
stellation observed by voyagers on elevating the antarctic or southern pole. We were here becalm- 
ed for upwards of a fortnight, and the heat was almost intolerable, notwithstanding the constant rains. 
It is a custom with the East India ships, English as well as foreign, to oblige ail those, who never 
crossed the line before, to pay a forfeit of five shillings, or undergo a severe ducking at the yard's 
arm : There was only one man hardy enough to go through this ordeal. It was done without the 



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captain's knowledge, who, on hearing the noise occasioned by the man's plunging into the water, 
came running on the quarter-deck, and was extremely angry ; for although there is a rope reeved for 
this purpose through a small block at the. fore-yard's arm, it is only by way of terror to enforce the 
fine, it being generally thought hazardous to plunge into the water, on account of the great number 
of sharks usually attending the ship ; these frequently plunder die seamen of their salt provisions, 
which are towed overboard to be freshened. We caught one which measured from 12 to 13 feet; 
it had run away with a large quantity of beef, and, on being opened, it was curious to see the seamen 
claiming their different pieces by their marks or tallies, which they have to distinguish them ; for 
without this precaution it would occasion a general confusion, as they are all put promiscuously into 
one copper to boil. The shark was cut up, and some of the sailors broiled part of it on the fire, 
peppered and salted as a beef-steak ; they said it tasted very well, and was good fresh food ; they 
would fain have had me to try a piece of it ; but I had no inclination to partake of such delicacies ! 
The smell was enough for me. 

For the amusement of my readers, I have inserted the custom that prevails at present on board the 
East India ships on crossing the line ; as the other mode is very properly laid aside, on account of 
its being attended with danger to the life of the person who had to go through the ordeal. I 
have given the extract just as I had it from a brother officer's private remarks on board the 
Devonshire Indiaman. "We crossed the equator or equinoctial line about 11 o'clock at night 
on the 1 1th of June, 1808, when Neptune's trumpeter hailed the ship, and demanded to know the 
ship and captain's name'; which being answered and minuted down in his pocket-book, he told 
us Neptune would come on board the next morning, as he understood there were several young 
gentlemen on board who had never crossed the line, and who of course would want to be shaved to 
qualify them to pass that sacred boundary a second time. Early the next morning the ship's 
company began to prepare for the ceremony of shaving and ducking, by clearing the deck, and 
getting the fire-engine, hose, &c. ready for working. About 9 o'clock the next morning appeared 
father Neptune in his car, with his spouse the fair Amphitrite and two of their children, with their 
body of tritons, sea nymphs, &c. This car was drawn by a sailor appropriately painted and dressed, 
preceded by the band of music playing a martial air, and followed by 20 or 30 of his attendant 
tritons and sea nymphs, all painted and dressed in a ludicrous and fantastical stile ; next the 
secretary with his writing book, pen v ink, &c. and last of all the chaplain with his appropriate band 
and black coat ; when one of the sailors remarked " Demme, I see we are to have a dish of prayers 
either before or after the ceremony, for do not you observe, messmate, Neptune's parson has got 
the signal out, as his foretop--sail is loose I see ?" They proceeded from the larboard side of the 



203 NOTES ON CANTO SECOND. . 

forecastle, and paraded round the quarterdeck two or three times in presence of the ladies and 
gentlemen passengers. Neptune then, approaching the captain, made him a present with his own 
hand of several Curiosities, such as rare fish, birds, &c. to put in his museum. Capt. Murray then 
asked his Majesty if he would take a glass of any kind of liquor that he had, to enable him to go 
through the fatigues of the day ; he answered, Yes, with all his heart; but desired it might not be any 
thing stronger than brandy ; adding, with a smile, " Pray, captain, what have you got to give me, for 
I am rather nice in my choice that way ?" Capt. Murray answered that he had some very excellent 
bottled porter ; but that if his Majesty preferred a glass of brandy, or a little punch, it was at his 
service : Neptune replied, he did not care if he had a little porter, as he found himself thirsty, "and 
you may give me a glass of brandy while you are making the punch." So far, it was one of the most 
ludicrous and laughable scenes I ever saw. By this time all was ready to begin the ceremony, and 
for that purpose they chose the starboard gang-way, that being the lee side of the deck. , They had 
previously got the fire-engine, which supplied them with plenty of water ; the scuppers, which let 
the water out from the deck, were plugged up, that there might be a plentiful supply always at 
hand ; near to the engine was a very large tub filled with water, and a pipe stave laid across it. 
Neptune in his car having drawn up near to the engine, his secretary cried out aloud "Mr Bennett!" 
(he being the first on the list) when Mr Bennett not appearing to answer to his name, three or 
four constables, with their staves of office, were sent below to bring him up. They presently 
returned with him blindfolded, and placed him upon the stave across the tub of water. The barber 
then ordered his deputy to lather him, which he did out of a bucket filled with tar, grease, &c. 
He then took his razor (made out of an old iron hoop and notched like a saw) and began to scrape 
it over his face. Just as he had finished this, another suddenly pulled the stave from under him, 
and he plunged into the water. The fire engine kept playing all the time, and several seamen were 
employed in throwing dirty water upbn him. The next that was called was the assistant surgeon, 
who was served just in the same manner. The third was your humble servant, Mr Purser ; 
but I was not blindfolded, neither was I washed in the tub of dirty water, but had only a little dot of 
tar put upon my chin, though pretty well soused from the engine ; for I was in such a hurry 
to get away, that I fell backward, which was the occasion of my being as wet as if I had been 
overboard. The tar easily came off, as I had taken the precaution of putting a little pomatum 
upon my chin, and came off by far the best of any of them. Two or three of the passengers, who 
had given offence to the sailors, had all their faces covered with tar, and the brush rammed into their 
mouths, and were then ducked two or three times in the dirty water. Six gentlemen defended 
themselves in their cabins with pistols and small swords ; but nevertheless they would have been 



NOTES ON CANTO SECOND. gos 

taken and brought up to the gang-way, if Capt. Murray, perhaps apprehensive of unpleasant 
consequences, had not sent an order to the seamen to desist, and not to molest them any further. 
One of them, unfortunately for himself, was soon afterwards decoyed on deck, where they reeked 
all their vengeance on him, and gave him a hearty ducking." 

Divine service is performed every Sunday by the chief officer, and every person on board is 
obliged to attend, unless sickness prevents them. 

The expenditure of water is about 1300 gallons per week. The captain and passengers breakfast 
at 8, dine at 3, take coffee at 6, are generally in bed by 10, and rise at 7 o'clock or before. 
SO or 40 ladies and gentlemen sit down every day at the captain's table. The third officer is 
the father of a mess; and the fourth, fifth, and sixth mates, surgeon's mate, and some of those 
passengers who cannot afford to mess with the captain, live with him ; and the captain, to keep 
up his consequence, will occasionally dine with him, and take the foot of the table. 

Shunning tumultuous, frantic noise, 
No friend to Bacchanalian joys. 

Saturday night on board the East Indiamen. After supper the first toast is " wives and sweet- 
hearts," or, " sweethearts and wives," just as the person who drinks is married or single. I 
commend them for their remembrance of those near and dear relatives, and I often thus drank 
a long continuance of good health to my Leonora and our children. I am sorry to add that, like 
all other good things, this is too often abused. Frequent intemperance on board this ship 
occasioned these unpleasant reflections. 

And hark ! direction's giv'n to sound, 
To find if in our reach the ground. 

A bank, on which the Indiamen generally strike soundings, between 20 and 30 leagues from 
the Cape of Good Hope. The Os Capelle, in lat. 36° 48' south, hove to and sounded, ground 
122 fathoms, with black specks, broken shells, and white coral. The lead used by seamen, for 
sounding^in deep water, is from 25 to 30 pounds weight j and on the bottom is affixed some tallow, 
for the purpose of ascertaining the kind of ground, and what part of the bank they are on. 

At length the long-expected birds appear, 
The joyful seamen cry, " the Cape is near .'" 

Birds, usually called Cape Birds ; they are seldom or ever seen far from the shore, and are a 
sure indication of the proximity of the Cape of Good Hope. 

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Nor vain their hope ; with the returning ray, 
The Table's fleecy summit we survey. 

The next morning we saw the Table, or Table Mountain, at the Cape of Good Hope, a noted sea- 
mark, appearing off at sea in the shape of a table, flat at the top ; and from thence it derives its 
name. It is of a prodigious height, and is frequently so enveloped with clouds, that it is only 
on a fine clear day we can discover the summit. The Cape of Good Hope is the southernmost 
promontory on the coast of Africa, and lies in 34° 29' south lat, and 18° 23' east ion. 

Pensive, the far-fam'd garden I explore, 

Where earth, all teeming, sheds her plenteous store ! 

The East India Company, at the Cape, have a famous garden, allowed to be the largest and 
most beautiful in the known world. Here are to be seen, nearly all the different fruits, exotics, 
and vegetables of all climates ; and it is not undeservedly called the Garden of the East. Adjoining is 
the governor's menage. Here I saw lions, tigers, leopards, zebras, elephants, and antelopes ; with 
many other curious animals, peculiar to the climate. 

The soil of the Hottentot's country being sandy, and only good at intervals, the husbandmen 
chuse to confine themselves to those places where they meet with water and fertile land ; but 
these advantages are seldom found together. The Dutch company procured slaves from 
Madagascar, who alleviated the burden of the white people ; and also a few Malays, who are 
accustomed to the climate, tho' they are scarce fit for the work that is required of them. If 
it were practicable to make the Hottentots steady and industrious, great advantages might accrue, 
which cannot be hoped for from their present character. All that has yet been done is, to prevail 
with the poorest of them to engage in service for one, two, or three years. They are of a 
docile temper, and perform the work that is expected from them ; but, at the expiration of their 
agreement, they take the cattle that are allowed them for wages, rejoin their clan, and never 
make their appearance again, till they have oxen or sheep to barter for knives, tobacco, and 
brandy. They find inexpressible charms in the independent and indolent life they pass in 
their deserts. Nothing can wean them from this attachment. As a proof of this, the following 
singular circumstance is related as a fact : One of their children was taken from the cradle by 
the Dutch, and instructed, in Holland, in their manners and religion. He made a progress 
answerable to the pains that were bestowed on his education ; he was sent to India, and usefully 
employed in trade.' Happening by accident to revisit his native country, he went to see his 
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and went to the fort to carry back his European habiliments. " I am come," said he to the 
governor, " to renounce for ever the mode of life you taught me to embrace ; 1 am resolved 
" to follow, till death, the manners and religion of my ancestors. As a token of my affection, I 
" will accept the collar and sword you have given me ; all the rest you will permit me to leave 
behind." He did not wait for an answer ; but ran away, and was never heard of afterwards. 

The Dutch East India Company receive a small profit from sixty leagers of red wine, and 
eighty or ninety of white, which they send to Europe every year. The leager weighs 
about twelve hundred pounds. There are only two places of small extent in the neighbourhood 
of Constantia that produce this wine, the soil of which is as yellow as gold. The company might 
have it entirely genuine, and at a very low rate ; but the governor finds it his interest to mix it 
with the produce of the adjacent vineyards. By this lhanagement, what remains of the celebrated 
Constantia wine is sold to foreign vessels, that happen to touch there, at 3s. 6d. per bottle. It is 
generally preferable to that which is extorted by tyranny. Nothing can be expected where it 
is not voluntarily obtained. 

Save where the files' of fire their lamp illume, 
And shed a shovj'r of sparks across the gloom. 

Flies peculiar to hot climates, which, from their phosphoric substance, shine like glow-worms 
in the night. Sometimes the bushes are covered with them, and the quantity of light reflected 
by them is truly astonishing. They are here called fire flies. 

"Hail! Sov' reign Goodness.' all productive Blind ! 
" On all tliy works Thyself inscrib' d we find!" 

It is the strongest instance of stupidity to neglect taking notice of the works of God in the 
stupendous productions of his creation. The wisest men in all ages have made this subject 
their study, and the pleasure arising from it may be more easily felt than described. In studying 
the works of nature, our minds become enlarged, and we are thereby enabled more and more to 
attain the highest and thereby the most rational ideas of a Divine Being. 

No shades the flying savage can conceal; 
The lover finds her in the tainted gale ! 

The Hottentot females besmear their skins with grease, mixed with certain herbs of a strong 
scent or smell, so that their approach, ox place of concealment, may be discovered by this 
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But while I write, the fatal sounds invade, 
The cannon warns! behold the signal's made! 

A quarter deck gun fired, and fore topsail loose, give the signal for the ship's sailing, bein^ 
about to take her departure, in order to hurry the seamen, passengers, &c. "on board. In short, 
it is as much as to say, that all packages, letters, &c. must be sent off immediately, or be left behind. 

In that fair hope I ev'ry danger dare; 
Thy image is the talisman I wear. 

Next to the Almighty, the seaman considers his wife or mistress as his polar or leading star. 
It supports and animates him in the hour of danger, checks his pursuits if improper, and it is his 
highest ambition to distinguish himself in the hour of action, and in the exercise of every manly 
virtue, in order to render himself more acceptable and worthy of her affection and esteem. I 
would wish it to be understood, that this is not confined to the officers alone, but to seamen in 
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When scorch 3 d with summer's sultry heat we burrij 
The cooling breeze refresheth in its turn. 

The land and sea breezes, which regularly blow in the mornings and evenings. 

By a vast ridge of circling mountains bound, 
The lofty Gauts half form a spacious round. 

The Gauts, which separate the coast of Malabar from Coromandel, extend from Cape Comorm 
south, to the confines of Persia north. This chain of mountains is supposed to occasion the 
difference of seasons on the two coasts, which is accounted one of the most extraordinary phe- 
nomena in nature; as on this coast the monsoon sets in at May or June, and lasts until October, 
when the fair weather begins again, and the rainy season immediately commences, and continues 
five or six months there, and in those places of exactly the same latitude; whereas higher up, 
at Bengal, the seasons are the same as on this side of India. It is supposed these mountains, 
from their immense height, resist the winds, and suffer them to approach no farther eastward ; 
as the whole country on this side of them is overflowed, when the other is parched up by the 
excessive heat of the sun. The rainy season is their summer, and of course the hottest time of 
the year ; so that these alternate seasons of wet and dry are not only salutary for vegetation, but 
the thick clouds serve as a canopy from the scorching heat of the sun. Who can see those 
wonderful works of the great Creator, and not conclude, with the Psalmist, 

" Lord.' how manifold are thy ivories! 
" In wisdom hast thou made them all." 

In the summer months, immediately preceding the rains, the hot scorching winds are so very 
intolerable, that it is almost impossible for a European to live in the towns. I have known the 
thermometer, about sun-rise, at 81°, and before 12 o'clock as high as 104°. This heat is almost 

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intolerable to a European constitution. The principal inhabitants, natives as well as foreigners, 
at this time retire to their garden-houses. At this season the way to be cool is to shut ai! the 
doors and windows, and darken the house as much as possible ; as it is evident that, by excluding 
the light, we in some measure diminish the heat. 

Now sun-burnt Rj/otts hasten to the fields, 
And reap the plenteous crop that Ceres yields. 

The Ryotts, or husbandmen, till the ground, milk the cows, and superintend all the different 
kinds of husbandry. 

Now round and round, with never-weary' d pain, 
The trampling steers beat out th' abundant grain. 

Their manner of thrashing, or treading out the corn by oxen, is the same as practised in the 
patriarchal age, and such as was used in Greece in Homer's time. — Deuteronomy cxxv. 4. 
" Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." 

Instead of thrashing out the corn with flails, as with us, oxen, in yokes, are led over the floor. 
The corn is laid in a circular heap, and the oxen's feet or hooves pared and cleaned. They go 
round as in a mill, till the whole of the grain is brought out of the husk. It is neither so clean 
nor commodious as the methods used by us ; but it seems it has been the practice time imme- 
morial in these countries, and continues to this day. 

To lose my grief in fond poetic dream^ 

I carv'd on Banian's bark this tender theme. 

The Banian tree is peculiar to this climate, is very large and spreading, much admired, and, 
I have been informed, worshipped by the Gentoos as an emblem of the Godhead. This tree, 
when old, has as many trunks as branches, occasioned by the latter bending down and taking root 
in the ground, from whence new branches spring up, which, again striking into the earth, make 
the tree at last of an incredible circumference, so that it will often shade upwards of 1000 men. 
There are no very large ones on the island of Bombay ; but, from what I have seen here, I can 
form an idea of those on the continent, of which I have heard prodigious accounts. 

Near these trees the Gentoos generally build their pagodas, and are fond of living under their 
shade. They are generally crowded with a great number of bats, whose wings, when extended, 
often measure from 3 to 4 feet. They are furnished by nature with sharp crooked claws, where- 
with they cling very fast to the branches. — In short, this tree is so well known and described by 



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naturalists, as to render any thing more I could say on the subject quite superfluous. I may 
mention, however, the peculiarity of one of this kind, which, having been blown up by 
the roots in a high wind, had vegetated in that state, and exhibited the curious circumstance of 
a tree horizontally elevated in the air It had lain during the whole of the monsoon, or rainy 
season ; but how the fibres, which struck out from the trunk, could acquire so much strength and 
solidity, as to raise a tree of 1 8 inches in diameter such a height from the ground, excites my 
wonder and astonishment. This happened at Anjengo, on the coast of Malabar, in the year 1756 ; 
and was seen by Captain Daniel Grose, to whom I am indebted for the drawing that accom- 
panies it. Milton gives a very curious and pleasing description of this tree in the 9th book of 
his Paradise Lost. 

Here balmy dews each morn refresh the soil, 
And monsoon-rains reward the planter's toil. 

The Tamarind tree is a sure sign of the approach of the monsoon. It is very large and 
spreading, of a deep rich green, except about a month before the rainy season commences, at' 
which time a new set of leaves, of a lively green, supply the place of the old ones, which is a 
sure sign the monsoon is approaching. There is one tree in the island of Bombay that retains 
this prophetic virtue to such a degree, that for a number of years past it has not been known to 
be in full verdure until a day or two before the rainy season sets in. The country people consider 
this tree as a sure thermometer, and are rarely if ever disappointed. 



IMPROMPTU, 



On our Ladies being sea-sick. 



By poets of old 

How often we're told, 

Fair Venus arose from the sea ! 
'Tis strange, very odd, 
Sire Neptune, that god, 

With our beauties should thus disagree ! 



SHORT ACCOUNT 



OF AN ANIMAL FOUND ON THE COAST OF MALABAR, 



This non-descript animal (I mean as to its classification) was sent to the Nabob or King of 
Travancore, as a present from a neighbouring Rajah, while I was on a visit to the governor at 
Anjengo on the coast of Malabar. It is impossible for me to give its name, or place it under any 
distinct class of animals, as neither natives nor foreigners ever saw any thing of the kind before. 
I can form no better judgment than to consider it as a lapsus natura ; but that I leave to the 
curious investigation of the naturalist, whose province it is to be more conversant in researches 
of this nature. 

I have here subjoined a drawing of this uncommon animal. — Its head and countenance resembled 
those of a sheep, its hind part that of a cow, with hooves and tail the same as that animal. 
Fore-feet like an antelope, horns like those of a goat, but smoother, and of a finer polish. 
It was about the size of a goat, and its colour black and white. 



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Sir J. St Aubin, London, 2 copies 
Nathaniel Atchison, Esq. London 
Agricultural Society, Scarbro' 
Major Anderson, Newcastle 
J. Anderson, Esq. Jesmond House 
Ralph Atkinson, Esq. Newcastle 
John Atkinson, Esq. Newcastle 
Thomas Allen, Esq. Ketton 
Rev. D. Aitken, Etal 
John Atkinson, Newcastle 
William Armstrong, Newcastle 
John Anderson, Scot's House 
William Andrews, Newcastle 
Lieut. Atkinson, R. N. Gateshead 
Thomas Armstrong, Newcastle 
James Archbold, Newcastle 
William Armstrong, Newcastle ' 
John Anderson, Newcastle 
Thomas Atkinson, Newcastle 
William Armstrong, Newcastle 
John Allon, North Shields 
. Armstrong, Hartley 
John Alcock, North Shields 
John Armstrong, M. D. North 

Shields 
Henry Anderson, South Shields 
J. Armstrong, M. D. Sunderland 
W. Adamson, Bishopwearraouth 
Ann Allison, Monkwearmouth 
G. Atkinson, Sunderland 
Joseph Ashton, Sunderland 

Atchison, Berwick 

Joseph Addison, Whitby 
M. Akenhead, Ruswarp 
Lancelot Allgood, Sand's-end 
Mrs Armitage, Scarbro' 
Charles Allen, Scarbro' 
William Ainsworth, Scarbro' 
William Anderson, Scarbro' 
Thomas Allen, London 
Lieut. William Alder, London 
William Armstrong, London 
John Appleton, London 
J. H. Alderson, London 
A. Adderton, London 
George Armstrong, Islington 
Robert Armstrong, North Shields 
Thomas Athbinal, London 
John Atkinson, Carlisle 
Eaglcsfield Ashly, Moryport 
Thomas Ashbricge, Maryport 



John Allanby, Cross Cannonby 
James Armstrong, Workington 
John Atkinson, Workington 
A. Atkinson, Workington 
I. S. Alderson, London 

Rev. Armstead, Whitehaven 

Stephen Atkinson, Gateshead 



Lord Buchan, Drybrough 

C. J. Brandling. Esq. M. P. Gos- 

forth House, 2 copies 
W. Brandling, Gosforth Lodge 
Rev. Ralph Brandling 
Geo. Bailie, Esq. M. P. Malestern 
George Barwick, Esq. Worling- 

ham, Suffolk 
Rev. Anthony Barwick, A. M. 

Rector of Warning, Norfolk 
Thomas Buston, Esq. Buston * 
David Baird, Esq. Foxton Hall 
A. Brown, Esq. Gottonside 
G. Bruce, Esq. Langlee 
T. Burdon, Esq. Newcastle, 3 cop. 
Christ. Blackett, Esq. Wylam 
Ralph Bates, Esq. 
John Brice, Esq. Bristol 
Mrs J. Brice, Bristol 
J. Bulmer, Esq. South Shields, 2 c. 
John Beck, Esq. Workington 
Robert Bowes, Esq. Workington 
R. Blaleney, Esq. Whitehaven 

Bell, Esq. Tarn Lodge 

Lieut. Col. E. J. Birkett, Etterby 

Hall 
Daniel Brent. Esq. Rctherhithe 
S. Brent, Esq. Rotherhithe,3cop. 
G. Beswick, Esq. sen. Gristhorp 
George JJeswick, jun. Gristhorp 
W. Beswick, Esq. Gristhorp 
John Bell, Esq. Scarbro' 
Benj. Broughton, Esq. London , 
George Blamire, Esq. Carlisle 
Rev. J. Brown, Long-Houghton 
Rev. A. Boult, Bamborough 
Rev. J. Blackburn, A. M. Fellow 

Trin. Col. Camb. Newcastle 
Rev. John Brown, Carlisle 
Rev. AV. Barnes, Scaleby 
R. Bulmer, South Shields, 2 cop. 

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Jasper Browell, London, 2 copies 
Richard Brown, London 
Robert Brown, London 
John Backhouse, jun. DarlingtoH 
Thomas Bell, Alnwick 
J. R. Batson, Berwick 
William Berry, Esq. Berwick 
Thomas Bell, South Shields 
Jacob Bell, South Shields 
John Brown, South Shields 
— — Burn, South Shields 

F. S. Burn, South Shields 
Robert Bell, Monkwearmouth 
John Lockey Burns, Sunderland 
Thomas Bonner, Sunderland 
Thomas Bruntin, Southwick 
William Bell, Sunderland 

G. Benson, Monkwearmouth 
Ben. Bray, Bishopwearmouth 
James Burn, Bishopwearmouth 
James Bell, Bishopwearmouth 
Mrs M. Bird, Bishopwearmoutk 
Brumell, Morpeth 

John Beveridge, Ellington 

E. Bennet, North Seaton 

H. P. Burrell, Long-Houghtom 
H. Burrell, Little-Houghton 
John Butterworth, London 
Thomas Bell, Wooler 
John Barber, Doddington 
Thomas Bennett, Doddington 
George Boyle, Ford 
Miss W. Brydone, Lennel House 
George Burn, Berwick 

F. Bonner, Horton 
John Boyes, Whitby 
Thomas Barwick, Whitby 
Christopher Boyes, Newby 
Richard Bellwood, Scarbro' 
Thomas Broderick, Whitby 

- J. Blackburn, Esq. High Stakesly 
Jasper Browell, East Eoldon 
John Buddie, Wall's End 
Miss Buddie, Wall's End 
William Burnett, Newcastle 
Benjamin Bradshaw, Newcastle 
William Bell, Newcastle 
John Bell, Newcastle 
Joseph Bainbridge, Newcastle 
Thomas Bell, Walker 
John Bcwman, Newcastle 
Thomas Brunton, Newcastle 
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John Bainbridge, Dent's Hole 
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle 
John Buhner, Newcastle 
George Barras, Gateshead 
R. Bell, Newcastle 
Thomas Bourn, Backworth 
Thomas Brown, Blyth 
John Bell, Newcastle 
James Brown, Newcastle 
W. Bryham, Cowpen Colliery 
Robert Bell, Bedlington 
William Brydone, Newcastle 
Alex. Bartleman, Tynemouth 
M. Bourn, North Shields 
Q. Blackburn, jun. North Shield* 
James Bell, North Shields 
Joseph Bell, North Shields 
Ralph Beal, North Shields 
John Broderick, Hartley 
John Bryers, Hartley 
George Burrell, North Shields 
John Bell, North Shields 
Henry Brown, North Shields 
"VV. Beaumont, Howdon Dock 
W. Blacklock, North Shields 
N. Blagdon, jun. North Shields 
Richard Barker, North Shields 
John Bowie, North Shields 
C. Bainbridge, South Shields 
Henry Brown, South Shields 
T. Blackburn, South Shields 
Alexander Bains, South Shields 
Edward Bell, Maryport 
John Bell, Maryport 
Thomas Bowman, Maryport 
Joseph Bendal, Maryport 
John Bigland, Maryport 
Edmund Brown, Maryport 
John Boan, Workington 
Joseph Bushby, Workington 
H. Barrowdale, Workington 
Miss Jane Barns, Workington 
Miss Isabella Barns, Workington 
Thomas Bragg, Whitehaven 
George Bragg, Whitehaven 
W. Bowes, jun. Whitehaven 
T. Brocklebank, Whitehaven 
Edward Dyne Brisco, Wakefield 
George Boyle, Ford 
John Baker, Newby 
Lieut. J. Barwick, R. N. North 

Shields 
Richard Bell, Newcastle 
T. Bonner, Monkwearmouth 
Mrs Bowes, Carlisle 
Joseph Bowman, Botcherby 
H. Brummell, Little Houghton 
Thomas Burrell, Doddington 
John Baker, Newby 
John Beilby, Walsgrove 
William Bean, Scarbro' 
Watson Beecioft, Scarbro' 
W. Barton, jun. Rotherhithe 
Edward Bond, Gaitskill 
J. Birdsall, Liverpool 
G. Black, London 
Edward Bowness, Workington 
Thomas Bradshaw, Aldgate 
J. Bradshaw, Lower Shadwell 
R. Bradshaw, Limehouse 
G. Butler, Shadwell 
John Beilby, Scarbro' 
Samuel Bottomley, jun. Scarbro' 
W. Barton, jun. Rotherhithe 
William Bungey," Rotherhithe 
W. T. Barnard, Rotherhithe 



John Burton, Rotherhithe 
William Barns, Rotherhithe _ 
Miss Mary Barton, Deptford 
Robert Branston, London 
Richard Brown, London 
Robert Brown, London 
John Burges, London 
Goland Burton, London 
Thomas Blagdon, Limehouse 
George Bradshaw, Londoa 
Charles Brady, Shadwell 
C. Blackburn, London 
John Betson, Wapping 
Joseph Barnes, R. N. Wapping 
R. A. Betson, Ratcliff Highway 
John Brown, Sunderland 
Daniel Brown, Whitby 
Pearce Broad, Mill Wall 
George Benson, London 
James Benson, jun. London 
William Brown, London 
Mrs Bowes, Carlisle 
G. Black, London 
Edward Bothwell, Mains Manu- 
factory, Carlisle 
Miss Bell Baty, Harrowby Grove, 

Carlisle 
James Bonnell, Carlisle 
Thomas Boustead, Carlisle 
Edward Bowness, Workington 



Lady Collingwood, London, 6 c. 
J. C. Curwen, Esq. M. P. Wor- 
kington, 3 copies 
William Crakenthorp, Esq. New- 
biggin Hall 
Lieut. Col. Coulson 
J. Clements, Esq. London, !> cop. 
Geo. Caswall, Esq. Sacomb Park, 

Herefordshire 
Mrs Caswall, Herefordshire 
Miss Caswall, Herefordshire 
J. Christian, Esq. Ewanrigg Hall 
Joseph Carroll, Esq. London 
Rev. J. Collison, A. M. Rector 

of Gateshead 
Rev. Charles Carver, A. M. Rec- 
tor of Fornset, Suffolk 
Robert Clayton, Esq. Newcastle 
J. G. Clark, Esq. Fenham 
Isaac Cookson, Esq. sen. Newcastle 
John Cookson, Esq. Newcastle 
Isaac Cookson, jun. Esq. Newcastle 
John Carr, Esq. Dunston Hill 
Ralph Carr, Esq. London 
George Currie, Esq. Newcastle 
Christ. Coulson, Esq. Whitby 
John Clunie, Esq. Berwick 
Matthew Culley, Esq. Wooler 
George Culley, Esq. Wooler 
Alex. Carr, Esq. Cavers, 2 copies 
William Carruthers, Esq. Braes 
A. Campbell, Esq. London 
J. H. Craster, Esq. Boag Hall 
Rev. H. Coates, A. M. Bedlington 
Rev. C. Charlton, M. A. North 

Shields 
Rev. William Cowan, Allonby 

Carr, Gateshead 

Robert Clark, London, 2 copies 
George Clark, Sheepwash, 2 cop. 



Miss Craik, Flimby Lodge 
Miss Ann Carlill, London 
William Curling, jun. Limehouse 
Charles Chatfield, Limehouse 
Richaid A. Carss, Shadwell 
John Christy, Old Gravel Lane 
Robert Cecil, London 
Luke Clennell, Gray's Inn Lane 
J. Couty, Ratcliff Highway 
Miss Carlysle, Carlisle 
J. Connell, Carlisle 
William Carrick, Carlisle 
T. A. Chaters, North Shield* 
Thomas Carrick, Carlisle 
J. Carruthers, Carlisle 
Joseph Carmalt, Wigton 
Henry Christian, Maryport 
Peter Collin, Maryport 
John Collin, Maryport 
Thomas Cragg, Workington 
John Casson, Workington 
James Carr, Harrington 
Thomas Cowen, Whitehaven 
Wm. Church, Whitehaven, 2 cop, 
A. Crierie, Maryport 
Mrs Chambers, Newcastle 
William Coates, Newcastle 
George Clementson, Newcastle 
John Chapman, Newcastle 
E. H. Campbell, Newcastle 
William Clark, Blyth 
Henry Carr, Plessy 
Miss Crawford, Newcastle 
J. Cunningham, Tynemouth 
J. Carr, North Shields 
Thomas Clark, North Shields 
Capt. Charlton, R. N. 
Mrs Capt. Charlton 
Thomas Crawhall, Newcastle 
Robert Casely, Newcastle 
Thomas Carr, Newcastle 
Joseph Croser, Newcastle 
Mrs Clark, Bebside 
Thomas Charlton, Newcastle 
R. Callender, Newcastle 
Ralph Clark, London 
Thomas Coulson, Newcastle 
Albert Cummings, Newcastle 
Robert Clay, Newcastle 
Rev. T. Cleghorn, Smailholm 
James Clunie, Berwick, 2 copies 
Mrs Curry, North Shields 
Thomas Curry, North Shields 
Mrs Cardonnell 
Robert Chater, Monk Seaton 
Thomas Clark, North Shields 
Alex. Crighton, North Shields 
David Crighton, North Shields 
Humphry Cook, Bothal Park 
William Clark, North Shields 
John Cornforth, North Shields 
W. Cornforth, North Shields 
William Coppin, North Shields 
Thomas Cowey, North Shields 
Matthew Craster, North Shields 
W. Councellor, South Shields 
Mrs Crofton, South Shields 
John Clay, South Shields 
T. Collin, Solicitor, Sunderland 
James Crone, Sunderland 
Joseph Carstars, Sunderland 
William Reed Clanny, M. D. 

Sunderland 
E. Coppin, North Shields 
Robert Coward, North Shields 
John Clark, North Shields 



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Matthew Craster, Low Light* 
John Cock, Lower Shadwcll 
R. Callender, Whickham 
J. Clark, Sunderland 
J. Coultherd, Deptford, Sun. 
Mrs B. Collin, Bishopwearmouth 
R. Cropton', Monkwearmouth 
William Cockerill, Sunderland 
R. Callender, Gateshead 
Miss Cresswell, Newbiggin 
John Challoner, Morpeth 
John Carnaby, Morpeth 
Edmund Craster, Preston 
Mrs Clark, Berwick 
John Carr, Ford 
Eliza Crawford, Alnwick 
William Cook, Alnwick 
John. Chapman, Whitby 
Cornelius Clark, Whitby 
Robert Campion, Whitby, 2 cop. 
George Croft, Whitby 
William Cockburn, Whitby 
Mrs Clarkson, Whitby 
Sunderland Cook, Robin Hood's 

Bay 
William Chambers, Scarbro' 
George Cook, Walsgrove 
Francis Clark, Scarbro' 
Miss Collier, Scarbro' 
Eustace Cass, Scarbro" 
Mies Chambers, Scarbro* 
John Cowper, Scarbro' 
}. B. Courthope, Rotherhithe 
J. Cockshott, Rotherhithe 
H. Crisp, Rotherhithe 
William Charlton, Rotherhithe 
L. H. Cove, London 
Robert Clark, London 
Richard Courteen, London 
John Chrysty, Wapping 
Joseph Collins, Workington 
Thomas Coulson, Bothal Barm 



Lady Delaval, Ford Castle, 3 cop. 
Sir G. Douglas, Spring-wood Park 
John Davidson, Esq. Newcastle 
Tho. Davidson, Esq. Newcastle 
Major Jas. Douglas, Edenside 
Geo. Dyson, Esq. London, 2 cop. 
J. D. B. Dykes, Esq. Dovenby 

Hall 
Thomas Davis, Esq. Blyth 
William Darley, Esq. Muston 
Charles Dean, Esq. Whitehaven 
Capt. Jas. Donner, R. N. Scarbro' 
Rev. Thomas Donald, A. M. 

Rector of Anthorn 
Rev. P. Danson, Whitehaven 
Samuel Donkin, Newcastle 
Thomas Danson, Wincomblee 
S. Dale, Newcastle 
George Davidson, London 
Wm. Dixon, Hartburn Grange 
Alexander Donkin, Newcastle 
John Davidson, Newcastle 
Fvobert Denton, Newcastle 
G. A. Dickson, Newcastle 
J. Davison, Newcastle 
R. Duxfield, Newcastle, 2 copies 
William Darnell, Newcastle 
Alexander Davidson, Blyth 



John Davidson, Blyth 
William Davidson, Blyth 
John Dodds, mariner, Blyth 
George Davy, Plessy 
Timothy Dobson, Newcastle 
Thomas Davidson, Blyth 
John Dobson, North Shields 
John Dodds, Blyth 
Robert Dixon, North Shields 
Lieut. Jas. Dathan, R. N. South 

Shields 
J. Dale, Mariner, South Shields 
George Dale, Hebburn 
J. Dale, North Shields 
Eliz. Deighton, North Shields 
J. Donkin, Mariner, Hartley 
T. Davison, North Shields 
Thomas Dryden, Hartley 
Joseph Donkin, North Shields 
Thomas Dawson, North Shields 
Henry Denning, North Shields 
Thomas Dobinson, North Shields 
John Donkin, South Shields 

C. Dickinson, South Shields 
Wm. M'Donald, South Shields 
Joseph Dumlin, South Shields 
Peter Dixon, Sunderland 

■ Dodd, Sunderland 
William Dunn, Sunderland 
W. Donkin, Hirst, near Morpeth 
Robert Dickinson, Embleton 
George Dunn, Buckton 
A. Dalziel, Wooler 

Diamond, Wooler 

Peter Devey, London 
John M. Dickson, Berwick 
J. S. Donaldson, sen. Cheswick 
Mrs Mary M'Donald, Belford 
Alex. M'Donald, South Shields 
Mrs D. Duck, Whitby 
John Dickinson, Whitby 
Timothy Dodsworth, Scaleby 
William Dodsworth, Scarbro' 
W. C. Dumeld, Scarbro' 
H. Dawes, Rotherhithe 
James Dudley, Rotherhithe 
Mrs Dixoa, Rotherhithe 
Robert Dryden, London 
Peter Davey, Loudon 
George Dale, Wapping Wall 
George Davison, London 
Thomas Davison, Shadwell 
Joseph Durham, Lower Shadwell 
R. Dowding, Lower Shadwell 
W. A. Day, Marshwall 
H. Dale, Lower Shadwell 
John Davey, Rotherhithe 

D. Donald, jun. Carlisle 
Mrs Daire, Carlisle 
John Drape, Wigton 
Aid. Dough, Maryport 
Rev. John Donald, Maryport 

R. Dickinson, Seaton Iron Works 
Anthony Dalzell, Workington 
Robert Dawson, Whitehaven 
George Ditchburn, Wapping 
Mrs Davidson, Pinnacle Hill 
William Devey, London, 3 cop. 
William Doubleday, London 
Abraham Dawson, Newcastle 

Dixon, Gateshead 

Edward Donner, Scarbro' 
James Dobson, Sunderland 



Cuth. Ellison, Esq. Hebburn Hall 
T. Selby Earle, Esq. Wooler 
Rev. F. Ekins, Rector of Morpeth 
Rev. Wm. Ettrick, A. M. High 

Barns 
Charles Erskine, Melrose 
Captain Elbeck, Rotherhithe 
A. Easterby, Cox Ledge Cottage 
— — Easton, Gateshead 
Samuel Elstob, W. Hartford 
Wm. Elliott, M. D. Newcastle 
George Ellison, North Shields 
Charles Errington, South Shields 
John Elgie, Ruswarp Mills 
William Estill, Robin Hood's Bay 
William Ellis, Rotherhithe 
Edward Evans, Mill Wall 
R. Evans, Stepney Causeway 
Mrs Ewart, Carlisle 
Thomas Ellis, Whitehaven 
Thomas Ezart, Newby 
Mrs M. Edgar, South Shields 
Andrew Elliot, Newcastle 
William Elliot, Newcastle 



N. Fairies, Esq. South ShJelds 
Thomas Foster, Esq. Luckner 
Aug. C. Foster, Esq. Camp Vilie 
Major V. Forster, Berwick 
Strickland Freeman, Esq. Henley 
Thomas Fisher, Esq. Kell House 
William Farmer, Esq. London 
John Faulder, Esq. London 
Thomas Fisher, Esq. Cambridge 
Mrs Fisher, Cambridge 
Miss Fisher, Cambridge 
T. Fisher, jun. Cambridge 
Rev. W. Fletcher, Dalston 
Rev. R. Fisk, Fellow of St. John's 

College, Cambridge 
Rev. S- Ford, Stepney 
G. Featherstonhaugh, Deptford, 

Sunderland, 2 copies 
Val. Fowler, Chelsea 
William Forbes, Gateshead 
William Falla, Gateshead 
John Forster, Newcastle 
Matthew Forster, Sol. Newcastle 
Lieut. Flinn, R N. North Shields 
Jos. Fidler, R. N. North Shields 
William Fothergill, Wall's End 
Robert Flinn, North Shields 
William Fairburg, Blyth 
Nicholas Foster, Preston 
J. Fleck, Shadwell 
Thomas Forsyth, South Shields 
William Forrest, South Shields 
Richard Frost, Sunderland 
James Forster, Berwick 
Thomas Fishburn, Whitby 
Thomas Fletcher, Throxenhy 
Mrs Featherstonhaugh, Scarbro' 
Mrs Eliza Ferguson, Deptford 
John Featherstonnaugh, Coal Ex- 
change, London 
J. Fish, London 
Thomas Forrest, South Shie!d3 
Thomas Foreman, Tilbury 



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Charles Finky, Dundee 
John Forster, New Town 
Richard Ferguson, Carlisle 
.lames Fairbairn, Carlisle 
Robert Fletcher, Ellenborough 
William Fletcher, Maryport 
Robert Fell, Workington 
Michael Falcon, Workington 
William Forster, Workington 
Matthew Foster, Calver Hill 
David Fletcher, Workington 
Henry Fisher, Whitehaven 
Lieut. Frazer, R. N. Newcastle 
R. Fenwick, Ballast Hills 
William Fenwick, Newcastle 
Nicholas Fenwick, North Shields 
John Fenwick, Milburn-Place 
John Fox, Scarbro' 
William Fairies, Shadwell 
John R. Foster, Carlisle 
William Frazier, Whitehaven 
G. T. Fox, Westoe 
Jv B. Fletcher, Morpeth 
"William Futty, Rencliff 
Mary Fletcher, Workington' 



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Karl of Glasgow 
Sir J. Graham, Bart. Netherby 
Lady E. Gavin, Langton Dunse 
John Goodchild, Esq. High Pal- 
lion, 3 copies 
Mrs Goodchild, High Pallion 
Major John Grey, Morwick 
John Grey, Esq. Kimmerston 
Edward Grey, Esq. Etal 
Tho. Graham, Esq. Newcastle 
John Graham, jun. Esq. Carlisle 
R. Green, Esq. South Shields 
Rev. W. S. Grundon, A. M. Scaleby 
Revjohn Graham, York 
John Grey, Milfield Hill 
C. Gilpin, M. D. Carlisle 
John Grievesbn, jun. Newcastle 
Thomas Gibson, Newcastle 
Capt. T. Gibson, Newcastle 
O. Greaves, Newcastle 
Thomas Graham, Newcastle 
Gilbert Gledstone, Blyth 
John Gray, Plessy 
John Gray, Blyth 
S. Gray, Low Lights 
Edward Grace, Seaton Cottage 
Mrs Greenhow, North Shields 
Francis Greenfield, Tynemouth 
William Glover, South Shields 
Thomas Gresham, South Shields 
J. Graham, jun. South Shields, 2 c. 
Jonath. Grevvcock, South Shields 
W. John Grey, Newcastle 
John W. Grey, Newcastle 
Robt. Gibbon, Monkwearmouth 
T. John Gregson, Sunderland 
Tho. Galley, Eishopwearmouth 
R. Golightly, Bishopwearmouth 
Thomas Gilchrist, Berwick 
M rs Gowans, Berwick 
Edward C. Gregson, Berwick 
Robert Greenbury, Whitby 
H. Goddin, Robin Hood's Bay 
C. Granger, R.obin Hood's Bay 
John Gray, Scarbro' 



Edward Gibbon, London 
Joseph Gibson, Spital Square 
William Greenslade, Rotherhithe 
John Grayford, Rotherhithe 
Robert Gathercole, Rotherhithe 
William Gaitskill, Rotherhithe 
John Gibbon, Wapping 
Alexander Gibbon, Wapping 
William Gray, R. N. London 
Ralph Gibbons, Newcastle 
J'osiah Gibson, Shadwell 
Harvey Geedysyn, F.sq. Lynn 
John Gray, Whitehaven 
John Gill, Maryport 
Watson Garbutt, Sunderland 
W. Granger, Robin Hood's Bay 
T. Granger, Robin Hood's Bay 
John Graham, Newcastle 
Edward Grey, Ford Hill 
John Grey, Scotby 
John Glaister, Wigton 
- John Gill, Maryport 
James Gardiner, Maryport 
Robert M'Grae, Workingtosa 
Isaac Gunson, Whitehaven 
Miss Geller, Carlisle 



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Sir C. Heron, Bart. South Shields 
Rev. Dr. William Hall, Shadwell 
John Hodgson, Esq. Elswick 
J. Harrison, Esq. Chimney Mills 
Major Handeyside, Saville-Row 
Earle Harwood, Esq. Newcastle 
Tho. Hinderwell, Esq. Scarbro' 
Col. H. Howard, Corby Castle 
Mrs Col. Howard, Corby Castle 
Milham Hartley, Esq. Rosehill 
H. Hildebrand, Esq. New Town 
John Hughes, Esq. E. India Docks 
Col. Anth. Hamilton, Whitehaven 
John Hamilton, Esq. Whitehaven 
Major R. Flodgson, Moor House 
Rev. John Hampson, Sunderland 
Rev. W. Haswell, North Shields 
Rev. S. Howard, Throxenby Hall 
Rev. W. Haggit, M. A. Chelsea 
Rev. A. Huddlestqn, Whitehaven 
Rev. R. Hartley, A. M. Carlisle 
Rev. William Haig, Wooler 
W. John Hay, Esq. Alemouth 
John Hudson, Newcastle 
Joseph Hudson, Newcastle 
William Hunter, Sol. Newcastle 
Thomas Harvey, Gateshead 
W. Hewitson, North Shield* 
Jacob Hudson, Morpeth 
Thomas Head, Newcastle 
John Head, Newcastle 
William Hind, Newcastle 
John Hawks, Gateshead 
Michael Heppell, Hartley 
William Harle, Newcastle 
Robert Hall, Newcastle 
— — Hammond, North Shields 
Stephen Horner, Gateshead 
George Hern, Newcastle 
James Harvey, Newcastle 
George Hawks, Gateshead 
R. S. Hawks, Gateshead 
Miss Hodgson, Newcastle 
Thomas Henderson, Gateshead 



John Huntley, Sol. Gateshead 
M. Hall, Gateshead 
Robert Hood, Newcastle 
Edward Humble, Newcastle 
John Hov/ard, Swalwell 
Jonathan Hilton, Newcastle 
Charles Handyside, Newcastle 
Thomas Hogg, Blyth 
W. Harrison, Sol. North Shields 
T. Hood, Solicitor, North Shields 
Pat. Holland, Blyth 
Thomas Harrison, North Shields 
Mrs Hall, North Shields 
S. Hall, sen. North Shields 
Trist. Heppell, Blyth 
J. Nelson Haider, South Shields 
J. Hutchinson, North Shields . 
W. Honeyman, North Shields 
Mrs Hudson, Whitby 
Mrs Kymers, North Shields 
John Hewitson, Newcastle 
William Hedley, South Shields 
Miss Hutchinson, North Shields 
Samuel Hall, jun. North Shields 
Edw. Henderson, North Shields 
John Harrison, North Shields 
Thomas Hewson, North Shield* 
Miles Hann, North Shields 
John Haddon, North Shields 
William Horner, North Shields 
Henry Harrison, South Shields 
Ralph Hodge, South Shields 
J. Hedley, South Shields 
Nathaniel Horn, South Shields 
F. Hammett, South Shields 
William Hunter, South Shields 
Thomas Horsely, Sunderland 
James Hall, Sunderland 
A. W. Haswell, Sunderland 
Thomas Hardy, Sunderland 
William Hayton, Sunderland 
Thomas Hudson, Sunderland 
Miss Harrison, Low House, near 

Sunderland 
J. Hutchinson, Monkwearmouth 
Mrs Ann Holgate, Thornton Hall 
Mrs Isab. Heurtley, Sunderland 
Michael Hodgson, Sunderland 
Robert Hodgson, Sunderland 
Mrs Hopton, Hudworth House 
T. Hird, Wearmouth Bridge 
Benjamin Heward, Sunderland 
Robert Heppell, Morpeth 
Anthony Hedley, Felton 

F. Henderson, Newton 

G. Hall, Fenham 

— — Haswell, Alnwick 
Miss Henderson, Wooler Mill 
David Hogarth, Coldstream 
Philip Hodgson, Connundrum 
Joseph Holt, Whitby 
Joseph Hamilton, Whitby 
Richard Flay, Robin Hood's Bay 
Christopher Harrison, Cloughton 
W. Hodgson, sen. Renclilf Wood • 
William Hodgson, jun. Burniston 
John Hornsey, Scarbro' 
John Howard, Flartford 
Francis Harrison, Scarbro 
Joseph Hammond, Scarbro* 
Samuel Huntress, Throxenby 
William Hornby, Scarbro' 
John Howson, Scarbro' 
William Karland, Scarbro' 
Jonathan Huntress, Scarbro' 
Samuel Hutchinson, Wapping 



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William Hudson, Smithfieid 
Robert Hall, Tower Hill 
Mrs Haycraft, Rotherhithe 
— — Hatfield, jun. Rotherhithe 
Thomas Hutchinson, Rotherhithe 
Mrs C. Harvey, Deptford 
William Hartree, Rotherhithe 
William Howard, Rotherhithe 
William Hewison, Blackwall 
Thomas Home, Coal Exchange 
Henry Hurst, Lower Shadwell 
James Hacks, Wapping 
Richard Hodgson, Cowpen 
Thomas Hodgson, Cowpen 
John Howard, Mill Wall 
James Hatfull, jun. Rotherhithe 
Thomas Hill, Limehouse 
John Harston, Greenwich 
John Hutchinson, Maryport 
Thomas Hope, Maryport 
Jeremiah Hope, Maryport 
Peter Hurd, Workington 
John Hewit, jun. Workington 
George Hull, Fenham 
Mary Harker, Allonbv 
William Humble, North Shields 
John Howard, Piessy 
John Hoanson, Southwick 
Edward Harper, South Shields 
William Hampton, Rotherhithe 
M. Hewitson, Newcastle 
Mrs Humble 

John Heysham, M. E>. Carlisle 
Tho. Hutchinson, Rotherhithe 
W. Hutchinson, North Shields 
George Homer, Bar E. J. Coffee 

House, 2 copies 
MissM. Hilditch, Lower Shadwell 
Miss H. Huntington, Aldgate ' 
Anth. Holmes, Carlisle, 2 copies 
J. M. Head, Carlisle 
John Henderson, Carlisle 
Adam Halliburton, Carlisle 
Alfred Henderson, Carlisle 
William_ Holmes, Carlisle 
G. H. Hewit, Carlisle 
Thomas Hill, Carlisle 
Joseph Hodgson, Allonby 
Jacob Coulthard, Allonby 
Miss Mary Harker, Allonby 
R. Holt, Bowness 
William Hodgson, Maryport 
J. Denton Hudson, Maryport 
John Hodgson, Maryport 
William Harrison, Maryport 
Mrs Hutton, Flimby 
William Hoodless, Chapel Tours 
Henry Hodgson, jun. Woikington 
Henry Head, Workington 
John Hodgson, Workington 
Henry. Hurd. Workington 
Robert Heslop, Harrington 
Joseph Hodgson, Harrington 
John Howard, Whitehaven 
A. Hammond, jun. Whitehaven 
John Harrison, Moresby 
John Hayward, Somerset House, 

Whitehaven 
John Humble, North Shields 

Hume, Berwick 

Thomas Howey, Wooler Eridge 
Samuel Hutchinson, Wapping 



B. Johnston, aged 100. Searbro' 



W. James, Esq. Little Houghton 
Thomas Jobling, Coldstream 
William Jeffreys, Berwick 
John Johnson, Whitby 
Josline Ireland, M. L>. Carlisle 
Samuel Jobling, Benwell 
John Johnson, Sol. Newcastle 
Mrs Johnson, Newcastle 
John Jefferson, Newcastle 
Creswell Jobling, Newcastle 
William James, Esq. Stamford 
James Jobling, Seaton Lodge 
M. Jordison, North Shields 
J. Jamson, Howdon Dock, 2 copies 
John Innerwick, South Shields 
Jasper Jackson, South Shields 
Mrs Johnston, Hilton Castle 

Jackson, North Seaton 

Richard Jackson, Carlisle 
Tho- Jones, Bishopwearmouth 
J. Jackson, London, 2 c-ipies 
N. C. Johnston, London 
William Jackson, Esq. Carlisle 
Henry Jefferson, Whitehaven 
T. James, Esq. Hensingham House 
Valen. Johnson, Monkwearmouth 
J. H. .lowsey, Bishopwearmouth 
Paul Johnson, Sunderland 
Thomas Jackson, North Seaton 

Johnson, Alemouth 

William Jobson, Chillingham 
M. Jameson, Sol. Berwick 
John Jones, Stow Brow 
Samuel Jennings, Rotherhithe 
John Jones, Rotherhithe 
John Jackson, London 
William Jowsey, Shadwell 
Henry Johnston, Whitby 
Mrs Irvin, Searbro' 
Col. S. Irton, Irton Hall 
Edward Johnston, Esq. Moresby 
H. E. Johnson, No. 151, London 
John James, Carlisle 
William Jackson, Carlisle 
Miss Jefferson, Carlisle 
Jonathan Johnston, Maryport 
Joseph Irwin, Wigton 
John Irwing, Wigton 
Thomas Jackson, Maryport 
. Master Jos. Johnston, Maryport 
Robert Jasper, Workington 
John Johnson, Workington 
Richard Johnston, Maryport _ 
J. Jackson, Workington 
Wm. Jodhunter, Somerset House, 

Whitehaven 
Thomas Johnston, London 
F. Johnston, Woodhorn 
Robert Johnson, Esq. Byker 

K 

His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh, 

Roxburgh Castle 
Rev. B. Kennicott, Vicar, Wood- 
horn 
Thomas Ker, Alnwick 
Thomas Keld, Esq. Searbro' 
Edward Knubley, Esq. Carlisle 
George Knowsley,*Esq. Newcastle 
George Kerr, Monk Seaton 
William Kirkley, Sol. Newcastle 
A. Kelty, Newcastle 
A. M. Kinlock, Newcastle 
William Knight, Ford Cottage 



3K 



Philip Kirton, North Shields 

Kelso, North Shields 

William King, sen. Jarrow Lodge 
James Kirg, Jarrow Lodge 
William King, jun. Jarrow LodgC- 
Thomas King, Jarrow Lodge 
James Kirton, South Shields 
Miss Kensey, Lowland House 
J. P. Kedson, Sol. Sunderland 
John Kearsley, Whitby 
William G. King, Snowden 
Robert Knox, Searbro' 
John Kingston, Searbro'' 
John Kentish, Rotherhithe 
Thomas Kent, Jamaica Place 
J. Kilcardine, Shadwell 
John Killett, Maryport 
Thomas Kirkpatrick, Maryport 
John Kay, Workington 
Miss J. Key, Harrington 
William King, Whitehavea 
James Kerr, Wooler 



Literary and Philosophical So- 
ciety, Sunderland 
East London Book Society 
Wm. Linskiil, Esq. Tynemouth 

Lodge, 4 copies 
Mrs Linskiil, Tynemouth Lodge, 

2 copies 
Humble Lamb, Esq. Ryton 
Airs Lodge, Carlisle, 2 copies 
Major Lieullyn, South L. M. 

Whitham, Stamford 
Mrs Lynn, South L. M. Whit- 
ham, Stamford 
Mrs Lamb, Ryton 
William Loraine, Esq. Newcastle 
Joseph Lamb, Newcastle 
W. J. Grey, Newcastle 
J. Losh, Esq. Barrister, Newcastle 
George Lister, Tynemouth 
J. Loughnan, Jerusalem Coffee 

House 
John Lambert, Newcastle 
Cuthbert Liddell, Newcastle - 
William Loftus, Newcastle 
Devergie Lisle, jun. Newcastle 
Charles Larkin, Newcastle 
Jos. Labourn, Gattshead, 2 cop. 
David Laidler, Newcastle 
James Lough, Blyth 
C. Lowes, Esq. Ridley Hall 
Edward Loggan, Newcastle 
Thomas Loggan, Newcastle 
Hanby Loggan, Newcastle 
Thomas Lawson, Newcastle 
Robert Laing, North Shields 
Robert Lyon, Monkseaton 
James Lyon, North Shields 
John Lamb, North Shields 
William Lamb, North Shields 
James Laing, South Shields 
Isaac Lupton, North Shields 
Isabella Lees, Southwick 
John Lawson, Monkwearmouth 
James Lee, Sunderland 
John Lessels, Sunderland 
Michael Laws, Sunderland 
John Lawson, Oldmeer 
George Laing, Long Houghtoa 
Peter Leech, Beadnell, 
Miss P. Lilburn, Holy Island 
Edward Lawson, Morpeth 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 



Rev. Robert Lundie, Kelso 
John Lambert, Alnwick 
James Laidler, Fenton 
Mrs C. Lawton, Scarbro' 
Simeon Lord, Scarbro' 
J. W. Luck, Rotherhithe 
Henry Louch, jun. Rotherhithe 
P. Lee, Shadwell 
R. H. Lister, London 
William Lacy, London 
T. Litwick, jun. Shadwell, 
D. Linstay, Commercial Road 
Robert Liddle, Oxford Road 
William Levett, Charing Cross 
Robert Lightfoot, Carlisle 
John Lowry, jun. Carlisle 
Robert Lenox, Mill House 
John Losh, Esq. Woodside 
Rev. T, Lancaster, Wimbleton 
Richard Lowry, Esq. Darn Hill 
John Lowry, Esq. Bunker's Hill 
Rev. Thomas Lowry, A. M. 

High Crosby 
John Lock, Esq. Jerusalem Coffee 

House 
John Langhorne, Berwick 
Henry Luzmore, Carlisle 
Miss Leuthwaite, Carlisle 
John Liddle, Newcastle 
John Langborne, Whitby 
Mrs Jane Littledale, Harrington 
Miss Lightfoot, Gateshead 
Nathaniel Langborne, Whitby 
John Lewis, Deptford 
Joseph Litt, Surgeon, Workington, 

Member of the Royal College of 

Surgeons, London 

M 

Lord Mulgrave, Mulgrave Castle, 

4 copies 
Sir C. Monck, Bart. M. P. Belsay 

Castle 
M. Montague, Esq. M.P. London 
Lieut. Col. Maclean, Berwick 
Jacob Maude, Esq. Sunnyside 
Thomas Maude, Newcastle 
Miles Monkhouse, Newcastle 
Rev. W. B. Moises, A. M. New- 
castle 
Rev. E. Moises, A. M. Newcastle 
Wm. March, Esq. Birmingham 
Rev. R. Mitchell, A. M. Embleton 

Rev. Maughan, Bambro' Castle 

John Mercer, Melrose 
— — Makenzie, M. D. Scarbro* 
John Marshall, Blyth, 6 copies 
Mark Marshall, Blyth, 6 copies 
William Maxwell, Newcastle 
G. Maddison, Esq. Newcastle 
Robert Marshall, Newcastle 
John Marshall, Fenham Hill 
Allen Moat, Newcastle 
Thomas Marshall, Newcastle 
Mrs Mathewson, Blyth 
J. Marshall, West York Militia 
George Marshall, Bedlington 
George Marshall, Bryery Hill 
John Maling, Hilton 
John Maling, Esq. Horse Guards 
Thomas Mellish, Esq. Shadwell 
Mrs Mounsey, Castle Townhouse 
Richard Markham, Sunderland 
William Metcalf, North Shields 
J. Marshall Mather, Newcastle 



Roger Milburn, Cramlington 
William Maltby, Newcastle 
Mrs C. Milburn, North Shields 
Daniel Morrison, North Shields 
" ■ Manchester, Monkseaton 
J. Milburn, North Shields 
Thomas Marshall, North Shields 
C. Maughan, Howdon dock 
John Mathwin, North Shields 
James Murray, North Shields 
— Moorson, Westoe, 2 copies 
Francis Mead, South Shields 
John Miller, South Shields 
William Mayons, South Shields 
J. Mann, North Shore, Newcastle 
Rev. Dr. S. Middleton, Rector, 

Rotherhithe 
Rev. J. Mossop, Whitehaven 
William Moorsom, Scarbro' 
Robert Maxwell, Minories 
R. Manchester, Mill Wall, 2 cop. 
Trufoot Mead, South Shields 
John Mather, South Shields 
J. Mewburn, Bishopwearmouth 
Jas. Myers, Monkwearmouthshore 
John Marshall, Whitburn, Bent 

House 
John Martin, Sunderland 
Isabella March, Field House 
James Murray, Long Houghton 
Thomas Moffet, Bambro' Castle 
William Morley, Whitby 
Lovel Megson, Scarbro' 
Mrs Maxwell, Scarbro' 
Thomas Mackwood, Throxenty 
Peter Marshall, Scarbro' 
John Moorsom, Scarbro' 
Samuel Middleton, Scarbro' 
James Maguere, Terraby 
Robert Marshall, Carlisle 
John Messenger, Wigton 
Thomas Manly, Whitehaven 
Robert Morwan, Scarbro' 
William March, Wapping 
Mrs E. Mockat, Rotherhithe 
Charles Maclean, Acorn Tavern 
William Moyan, London 
R. A. Morgan, Rotherhithe 
J. A. Mason, E. I. Chambers 
J. Mawman, Millwall 
George Munyard, Greenwich 
John Mitchinson, Maryport 
John M'Keen, Maryport 
John Mounsey, Maryport 
Isaac Middleton, Maryport 
James Mitchell, Maryport 
William Mitchell, Maryport 

M'Kensey, Alemouth 

Thomas Mellish, Esq. London 
William Mordy, Workington 
Robert Mordy, Workington 
Thomas Martin, Workington 
J. M. Mumford, Berwick 
Joseph Morton, Bishopwearmouth 
William Middleton, Whitby 
R. B. Moorsom, Wapping 
William M'Millen, Maryport 
Robert M'Gaa, Workington 
Joseph Millun, Maryport 
Adam M'Peter, Workington 
Thomas Martin, Workington 
Wm. Middlemas, North Shields 
Wm. Metcalf, jun London, 2 cop. 
George Matham, Millwall 
B. M'Leod, Gateshead 
J. M. M'Leod, sen. Gateshead 



J. Munden, Esq. Berwick 
David Mainland, North Shields 
Thomas Martin, Workington 

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Mrs North, London 

E. Nevenson, Carlisle 

Mrs Nicholson, Wearmouth 

Green 
Rev. Henry Nicholson, A. M. 

Rector, Moresby 
Mrs Nicholson, North Shields 
Robert Nicholson, North Shields 
Robert Nichols, Newcastle 
William Nesham, Newcastle 

Northover, Blyth 

Thomas Nesbit, Blyth 
Gilbert Newton, Blyth 
Walter Nicholl, Hartley 
W. H. Newton, Skinner's Burn 
George Nicholson, Seaton Lodge 
J. Nicholson, South Shields 
Jackson Nattrass, Sunderland 
Thomas Nettleship, Whitby 
Edward Nettleship, Whitby 
William Newham, Scarbro* 
George Nesfield, Scarbro' 
John Newman, Bethel Place 
Charles Nesbit, Chelsea 
William Nicholson, Newcastle 
James Nicholson, Islington Road 
W. S. Nicholson', Carlisle 
Wm. Norman, Solicitor, Carlisle 
John Nicholson, Whitehaven 
Miss E. Nicholson, Sunderland 
J. Nicholl, London 
J. Nicholson, Newcastle 
J. G. Norton, Scarbro' 

O 

R. Ormston, Newcastle 
William Orde, Esq. Nunnykirk 
Rev. E. Otter, A. M. Rector, 

Bothal 
Bernard Ogden, Sunderland 
John Ostle, Newcastle 
George Ogletree, Hartley 
Edward Oliver, South Shields 
Thomas Outhet, Scarbro' 
Palen Oram, Rotherhithe 
John Orchard, Coal Exchange 
John Osborn, Allonby 
Wilkinson Ostle, Maryport 
William Oldfield, London 
James Ord, Sunderland 
J. Orde, Esq. Weetwood 
Richard Overton, Rotherhithe 



Right Hon. Hugh Baron Percy, 

Alnwick Castle, 6 copies 
Col. Horace St. Paul,Ewart House 
Horace H. D. C. St. Paul, Esq. 

St. Ninians 
Rev. J. Pitcairn, Kelso 
Sir John Pringle, Bart. Stitchel 
J. Pringle, Esq. Tollwood Lea 
James Potts, Byker 
Joseph Pollard, Newcastle 
James Pollard, Newcastle 
William Pattison, Newcastle 
James Pentland, Chimney Mills 
William Potter, Skinner's Burn 






LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 



Miss E. Polwart, Blyth 
Edward Prysick, South Shields 
Isaac Porett, South Shields 
George Potts, South Shields 
George Park, South Shields 
William Potts, Sunderland 
Miss Phillips, Whitburn 
George Pringle, Dunston Hill 
Sir W. Paxton, Knight, Piccadilly 
Charles Price, Esq. Mill Wall 
John Phillips, Low Crosby 
Rev. W. A. Pemberton, Register 
of the University, and Fellow of 
Emanuel College, Cambridge 
John Pattison, Esq. Pow Hall 
Major Paxton, West Suffolk 
Robert Potts, Newcastle 
Thomas Pescod, North Shields 
M. A. Pelham, North Shields 
Robert Pearson, Hartley 
Christopher Parker, Tynemouth 
John Paxton, South Shields 
William Peddie, South Shields 
Wm. Palmer, Monkwearmouth 
Joseph Pearson, Sunderland 
George Pringle, Beadnell 
Thomas Pearson, Whitby 
Rev. Joseph Pattison, New Town 
William Pearson, Maryport 
M. Ponsonby, Esq. Whitehaven 
Mrs Paley, Carlisle 
Thomas Pickering, Carlisle ' 
Miss Ann Parkin, Scaleby 
James Pearson, Scarbro* 
William Phillips, Rotherhithe 
George Powditch, Coal Exchange 
R. A. Pearcy, Rotherhithe 
Miss Painter, Carlisle 
Joseph Pattinson, Maryport 
John Penrice, Cockermouth 
James Pitcairn, Maryport 
John Pearson, Maryport 
William Penny, Workington 
John Peile, Whitehaven 
William Peil, Harrington 
Thomas Parkin, Wigton 
A. Peat, Esq. Workington, 
Rev. S. Pollock, North Shields 
R. Pearson Poad, South Shields 

2 copies 
John Pearson, Scarbro' 
William Parsons, Scaleby 
J. A. Punnett, Rotherhithe 
John Punnett, Rotherhithe 
G. R. Peurson, Rotherhithe 
Walter Pace, Rotherhithe 
Daniel Pattinson, Carlisle 
Mrs Patterson, Middleton 
Richard Pringle, Beadnell 
George Purvis, New Etal 
Thomas Pearson, Scarbro' 
George Palmer, Rotherhithe 
Charles Pattison, Sol. Berwick 
Preston & Heaton, Newcastle, 2 c. 



T. Quintin,Esq. Great Grandsden, 
Huntingdonshire 

R 

Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. M. P. 

Blagdon, 2 copies 
Lieut. Col. D. Robertson, Kelso 
Archibald Reed, Esq. Whorlton 



R. Hfeay, Hilton Place 
William Roy, Esq. Nenthorn 
William Riddell, Esq. Camiston 
H. Robertson, London 
John Redhead, Newcastle 
Edmund Robson, Newcastle 
J. Renwick, Newcastle 
E. Redshaw, South Shields 
Mrs Robson, Blyth 
John Roddam, Gateshead 
James Reid, Newcastle 
R. Robertson, Newcastle, 2 copies 
John Russell, Heworth, 2 copies 
Thomas Robertson, Newcastle 
Rev. W. Reed, A. M. Warkworth 
Thomas Riddell, Esq. Camiston 
William Reynolds, Whitby 

Renton, Esq. Easington Grange 

Anthony Ridley, Plantation 
Capt. E. Reeve, West Suffolk 
William Robson, Killingworth 
Thomas Reed, C r ofton 
Robert Ruddock, Blyth 
William Reay, Walker 
H. Ranson, Stannington 
Robert Rumney, Warden 
Miss Robson, North Shields 
Alexander Russel, North Shields 
J. Reid, South Shields 
Thomas Ridley, Hartley 
Edward Robinson, Blyth 
Mrs Robinson, North Shields 
John Ridley, Plantation 
Hugh Reid, Esq. Bar Jerusalem 

Coffee House 
Capt. Rotheram, Royal Navy 
John Ramsay, M. D. Newcastle 
Rev. G. Rix, Blyth 
Anthony Robson, Walker 
Richard Ruddock, Blyth 
Charles Ridley, Blyth 
William Redhead, Carville 
C Rankin, Newcastle, 2 copies 
William Robinson, Blyth 
H. Rennoldson, Newcastle 
Wm. Richmond, North Shields 
John Reed, North Shields 
John Railston, North Shields 
Wm. Richardson, North Shields 
J. Reay, Low Lights 
William P>.eed, North Shields 
Robert Russell, Chirton 
James Robinson, North Shields 
Miss M. Rowe, Old Light House 
T. Robertson, South Shields, 2cop. 
Wm Richardson, South Shields 
R. B. Roxby, South Shields 
Wm. Robertson, jun. Whitburn 
M. Robson, Monkwearmouth 
John Ridley, Sunderland 
T. Richardson, Bishopwearmouth 
John Riddell, Morpeth 
Richard Robson, Alnwick 
James Rogers, Cornhill 
William Robinson, Maryport 
John Reed, Berwick 
John Rennoldson, Newcastle 
John Robinson. Whitby 
M. .Roberts, P otherhithe 
Mrs Rogers, Deptford 
G. T Raine, Ratcliff Cross 
Joseph Rickman, London 
J.W. Roxby, South Shields 
J. R. Robson, J arrow Lodge 
George Raffield, Sunderland 
T. Robson, Bishopwearmouth 



R. P. Robson, Monkwearmouth 
W. Reaveley, Bishopwearmouth 
John Robson, Sunderland 
Matthew Robson, Sunderland 
William Reay, Sunderland 
Josiah Renner, Shadwell 
— Rae, Palinsburne 
Robert Rogers, Whitby 
Thomas Robinson, Walsgrove 

Robson, Solicitor, Scarbro' 

T. Rattenbury, Rotherhithe 
Samuel Rogers, Rotherhithe 
T. S. Rains, Wapping 
Charles Richardson, London 
Christopher Richmond, London 
Thomas Richards, Bermondsey 
Robert Ridley, Mill Wall 
Isaac Robinson, London 
Mrs Ruelle, Shadwell 
Miss A. J. Rowlands 
Thomas Robinson, Thursbf 
Thomas Rogers, London 
Thomas Relph, Wigton 
John Robinson, Wigton 
E. Reeve, Cheapside 
Robert Reed, Maryport 
John Retson, Maryport 
G. Richmond, Maryport 
William Rees, Workington 
Henry Russell, Workington 
R. Russell, Seaton Iron Works 
James Robson, North Shields 
T. Ratcliff, jun. North Shields 
Joseph Ranney, North Shields 
William Robinson, Maryport 



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Lord Somerville, Berkley Square, 

2 copies 
Sir J. Senhouse, Knt. Whitehaven 
Rev. J. Smith, Vicar, Newcastle 
Malin Sorsbie, Esq. Newcastle 
Benjamin Sorsbie, Esq. Newcastle 

Rev. Simpson, Tanfield 

Thomas Shadforth, Newcastle 
Thomas Scott, Newcastle 
Joseph Snowball, Newcastle 
Joseph Slack, Newcastle 
George Straker, Newcastle 

Sadler, London 

Thomas Scott, jun. Newcastle 
George Stewart, Newcastle 
Jacob Sopwith, Newcastle 
Thomas Smith, Newcastle 
Robert Smith, Shotton 
Thomas Sanderson, Newcastle 
Charles Smith, Newcastle 
John Scott, Newcastle 
George Story, Esq. Police Office, 

Shadwell 
R. Steavenson, M. D. Newcastle 
J. Scott, Esq. Dockwray Square, 

2 copies 
Marlow Sidney, Esq. Cowpen 
Henry Spence, Esq. Pigmy Hall 
William Sherraton, Blyth 
John Steavenson, Blyth 
Joseph Scaife, Blyth 
William Straughan, Blyth 
Thomas Snaith, Newcastle 
Richard Small, Bedlington 
Henry Smith, Bedlington 
J. W. Sanders, Newcastle 
Thomas Spratt, North Shore 
W. M. Stamp, Newcastle 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 



J. Souler, Newcastle 
Joseph Souler, Newcastle 
John Sterling, North Shields 
Col. R. Snow, Greenwich 
L. Smith, Esq. Collector, Cus- 
toms, Carlisle 
William Simpson, Esq. Rickerby 
Joseph Stedholm, Carlisle 
H. Senhouse, jun. Esq. Castle Hill 
John Stamp, Sunderland 
William Smith, Blyth 
— — Snowdon, Monkseaton 
Stephen Stanton, Seaton Cottage 
William Smith, Horton 
R. Shortney 

Francis Skelton, London 
Nicholas Smith, Tynemouth 
S. Smith, North Shields 
Robert -Sinton, South Blyth 

■ Story, Industry, South Blyth 

Thomas Stewart, North Shields 
Richard Robson Storey, Blyth 
Henry Smith, Bedlington 
Rev. T. Shute, A. M. Morpeth 
P. J. Selby, Esq. Twizell House 
T. G. Smith, Togston 
Rev. P. Stockdale, Lesbury 
Thomas Selby, Esq. Biddleston 
Mrs Symonds, North Shields 
Robert Smith, South Shields 
Robert Scotland, South Shields 
John Salmon, South Shields 
Jacob Sanderson, South Shields 
William Smith, South Shields 
W. Stark, South Shields, 2 copies 
M. Soulsby, jun. South Shields 
William Smith, South Shields 
George Scott, South Shields 
Henry Sharp, South Shields 
William Smith, South Shields 
Thomas Scott, South Shields 
Capt. Selby, Biddleston 
Mrs Silvertop, St. Ninians 
George Stafford, Bow-Street 
Mrs Col. Salkeild, Brisco Hill 
William Smith, Sunderland 
John Stamp, Sunderland 
John Smithis, Sunderland 

Stevenson, Bishopwearmouth 

John Surtees, Whitburn 
Robert I. Shafcoe, Sunderland 
Wm. Scott, Monkwearmouth 
J. Snowdon, Sunderland 
Joseph Spence, Bishopwearmouth 
Andrew Simpson, Sunderland 
Thomas Straker, Longhurst 
T. Shanks, Bishopwearmouth 
Edward Spearman, Sheepwash 
G. B. Stamp, Alnwick 
Grieve Smith, Budle 
Thomas Sands, Swanbister" 
William Scott, Berwick 
R. Stevenson, Berwick 
Gideon Smales, Whitby 
John Sanders, Aberdeen 
Miss A. Scowby, Whitby 
Thomas B. Smith, Whitby 
Ralph Strong, Whitby 
T. Stronther, Robin Hood's Bay 
R. Smelt, R.obin Hood's Bay 
H. Storiehouse, Cloughton 
Joseph Smith?on, Scaleby 
William Sandvvith, Scarbro' 
William Simpson, Cayton Cliff 
C. J- Skelton, Scarbro' 
Thomas Scdman, Scarbro' 



John Scott, Scarbro' 

Luke Smell, Scarbro' 

M. I,. Scaley, Scarbro' 

Matthew Smith, Scarbro' 

H. Stalker, Scarbro' 

William Smith, bcarbro' 

G. Scaum, Scarbro', 2 copies 

E. Sherwood, Scarbro' 

George Spaworth, ClerkenweU 

Mrs M. .Short, Rotherhithe 

W. Sexton, New Brentford. 

Mrs Sutton, London 

Andrew Smith, London 

John Sedger, Rotherhithe 

Thomas Smith, Rotherhithe 

W. B. Scott, Coal Exchange 

J. R. Scott, Coal Exchange 

William Saville, Shadwell 

D. Smith, Rotherhithe 

J. Smith, Rotherhithe 

S. Strother, West India Docks 

Thomas Sewer, Rotherhithe 

William Storer, Shadwell 

Wm. Stavers, Commercial Road 

John Silk, London 

Lieut. Robert Sutherland, London 

William Steel, Rotherhithe 

Mrs J. Silks, Hackney Road 

Thomas Saville, Limehouse 

Stephen Stanton, Seaton Cottage 

Thomas Spratley, Mill Wall 

J. Scarron, Carlisle 

Mrs S. Silks, London 

J. Scaife, Commercial Road, 2 cop. 

Isaac Searcy, London 

S. Saul, Solicitor, Carlisle 

Francis Stoddart, Carlisle 

J. H. Sutton, Carlisle 

George Sewell, Carlisle 

Mrs Skottoe, Etterby Cottage 

Ralph Sanderson, Swinhoe 

George Sewell, Esq. Post Master, 

Carlisle 
Miss Mary Sheffield, Carlisle 
Henry Stephenson, Carlisle 
Joseph Saul, Greenrow 
Joshua Stalker, Maryport 
Francis Sibson, Cross Cannonby 
Coulthard Sim, Maryport 
Richard Scott, Maryport 
Joseph Scott, Workington 
Robert Steele, Workington 
John Sugdcn, Workington 
Henry Salkield, Workington 
Richard Scott, Workington 
John Swinburn, Workington 
James Shaw, Workington 
John Smith, Workington 
Dacre Stowbridge, Whitehaven 
William Sawyers,, Whitehaven 
John Spittal, Whitehaven, 3 copies 
John Scott, Whitehaven 
Dan. Stephens, Commercial Road 
Robert Shields, Tynemouth 
Henry Smith, South Shields 
Thomas Smith, Sunderland 
Edward Storey, Newcastle 
Thomas Sindry, Rotherhithe 
Robert Sewell, Lonaon, 2 copies 
William Simpson, Ricarby 
John Skelton, Skinburness 
James Steel, Esq. Whitehaven 
Joseph Sewell, St. Anthem's 
William Spence, Sunderland 
John Spence, Sunderland 
William Stokoe, Newcastle 



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Trinity House, Newcastle 
James Tindall, Esq. Scarbro' 
R. Thorp, Alnwick 
Lieut. Tate, R. N. Dunston Steed? 
Robert Townson, Eord Castle 
Thomas Thompson, Newcastle 
Nathaniel Twizell, Newcastle 
William Towns, Newcastle 
Thomas Thompson, Newcastle 
William Train, Gateshead 
James Thompson, Gateshead 
Thomas Thoburn, Blyth 
John Taylor, Blyth 
Andrew Trotter, North Shield? 
Paul Turnbull, North Shields 
Emanuel Taylor, North Shields 
Benjamin Tyzack, North Shields 
James Thompson, Newcastle 
Rev. G. Thompson, Melrose 
Robert Thompson, Fenham Hill 
Miss Thompson, Fenham Hi!! 

A. R. Turnbull, Esq. Savage Gar- 
dens 

Mrs J. Thrift, North Shields 
John Thompson, South Shields 
Roger Turnbull, South Shields 
Thomas Turpin, South Shields 
Matt. Thompson, South Shields 
Thomas Thompson, Sunderland 
John Thompson, Sunderland 
James Thompson, Sunderland 
William Thompson, Morpeth 
Thomas Taylor, Melrose 
Edward Theakin, Staiths 
Henry Thompson, Belford 
Joseph Thornhill, Whitby 
S. Thompson, Robin Hood's Bay 
William Todd, Robin Flood's Bay 
Robert Tindall, Esq. Scarbro' 
Henry Taylor, Rotherhithe 
Wm. Throyts, Esq. Tulhamstead 

House, Berkshire 
Mrs Throyts, Berkshire 
Miss Throyts, Berkshire 
Rev. J. Thompson, Allonby 

B. Tindale, Robin Hood's Bay 
R. Truman, Robin Hood's Bay 
John Taylor, Everley 

J. Tandall, Scaleby 
John Tisiman, Scarbro' 
John Tindall, Scarbro' 
Joseph Taylor, Scarbro' 
Joseph Thirlwall, Scarbro' 
Jonathan Tyson, Flarwood Dale 
John Thirston, London 
William 1 hompscn, London 
William Trewfitt, London 
Archibald Tod, Esq. Drygrange 
Messrs. Thompson & Masterman, 

Sunderland, 2 copies 
Richard Taylor, Limehouse 
John Thrum, Mill Wall 
Robert T. Theobald, Marsh Wail 
William Todd, Mill Wall 
John Thornton, Cheapside 
Richard Tyson, Carlisle 
John '1 hompson, Carlisle 
Miss Tate, Homthill 
William Twentyman, Maryport 
Henry Tickle, Maryport 
Philip Thirlwall, Maryport 
William Thompson, Maryport 
Robert Thompson, Maryport 
John Thompron, Workington 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 



Simon Temple, Esq. Hilton Castle 
Henry Towers, Workington 
Edward Tyson, Maryport 
Thomas Tulip, Palinsburn 
George Thompson, Crookses 
Major Thompson, South Shields 
John Taylor, South Shields 
Philip Taylor, Hartley 
George Todd, North Shields 
Robert Tate, Berwick 
John Thornton, London 
Rev. J. Thompson, Wigton 
William Tinmouth, Monkwear- 
mouthshore 

U 

J. Usherwood, London 

V 

H. Vazey, Scarbro' 
William Vasey, South Shields 

W 

Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. Wal- 

thamstow, Essex, 12 copies 
John Walker, Esq. Wall's End, 2 c. 
J. Wright, North Shields, 3 copies 
William Wilkinson, Esq. Collector, 

Blyth 
Steph. Wright, Esq. North Shields 
Taylor Winship, Newcastle 
John Wait, Chimney Mills 
Edward Wilson, Newcastle 
Ralph Waters, Newcastle 
Joseph Willis, Sol. Gateshead 
William Wealleans, Morpeth 
Thomas Wilson, Whitehaven 
John Whiteside, Whitehaven 
Wm. Wilkin, Sunderland 
John Whinfield, Gateshead 
Miss Mary Wilson, Long Benton 
John Woodhorn, jun. Alnwick 
Francis Watkins, Whitby 
Cuthbert Wood, Blyth 
Adam Wood, Maryport 
Wm. Wyld, Maryport 
R. Wilkinson, Esq. Sheepwash 
J. Wright, Newcastle 
Mrs Wilson, Newcastle 
J. Walker, Newcastle 
Thomas Wardle, Newcastle 
Robert Watson, Newcastle 
Tho. Wright, Esq. Whitley Park 
Thomas M. 'Winterbottom, M, D. 

South Shields 
Rev. Rich. Wallis, A. M. Rector, 

Seaham 
Wm. Watson, Esq. North Seaton 
Rev. Richard Whitton, Rector of 

Rennington 
.Tames Watson, Newcastle 
Ralph Walker, Newcastle 
Michael Watson, Newcastle 
William Wilson, Blyth 
Matthew Wilson, Blyth 
Thomas Wailes, Newcastle 
Edmund Watts, Cowpen 
Mrs M, Watts, Cowpen 
Francis Wright, Blyth 
Edward Wright, Blyth 



Michael Watson, North Shields 
George Wigham, North Shields 
John Wheatley, North Blyth 
H. O. Weatheriy, Newcastle 
G. Waldie, Esq. Hyndersyde Park 
Robert Waugh, Melrose 
Wm. Willoby, Esq. Berwick 
Rev. W. Woodall, A. M. Branston 
William Wardle, North Shields 
William Wailes, North Shields 
H. P. Wright, North Shields 
William Ward, North Shields 
Mrs M. Williamson, Tynemouth 
John Whale, North Shields 
James Warkman, North Shields 
James Wheatley, London 
Stephen Wiseman, North Shields 
John Wood, South Shields 
Henry Wright, South Shields 
G. F. Wilson, South Shields 
Thomas Wallis, South Shields 
William Wallis, South Shields 
John Whittingham, South Shields 
Jos. Wilson, Esq. Scarbro', 2 copies 
Stephen Wharton, Scarbro" 
Miss Waugh, Carlisle 
Mrs Watts, Carlisle 
Mrs Warwick, Carlisle 
Robert Waldie, Carlisle 
Wm. Wilson, South Shields 
Miss Weatherburn, Sunderland 
William Wilkin, Sunderland 
William Wealands, Monkwear- 

mouthshore 
Bartholomew Wilkinson, Monk- 

wearmouthshore 
William Wake, jun. Monkwear- 

mouthshore 
Miss Watson, Monkwearmouth- 

shore 
J. Wilson, Monkwearmouthshore 
Henry Wilson, Monkwearmouth- 
shore 
Elizabeth Walker, Monkwear- 
mouthshore 
R. D. Wilson, Monkwearmouth- 
shore 
Miss E. H, Wilson, Monkwear- 
mouthshore 
J. Wilkinson, Monkwearmouth- 
shore 
Cuthbert Wood, Blyth 
Stanley Wildridge, Workington 
Tho. Westray, Seaton Iron Works 
Cuthbert Wilson, Workington 
Wm. Wood, Workington 
Kelsick Wood, Workington 
Joseph Walker, Workington 
John Walker, Workington 
John Warn, Workington 
R. Wilkinson, Esq. Whitehaven 
Rev. W. J. Wilton, A. M. New- 
castle 
Rev. H. Warkman, Earsdon 
John Waters, Sunderland 
Tho. Wiison, Wearmouth Bridge 
John Wilson, Sol. Morpeth 
John Woodhouse, jun. Alnwick 
Robert Wilson, Berwick 
George Wilson, sen. Alnwick 
George Wilson, Alnwick 
Mrs Wilson, White Swan Inn 
Jonathan Wake, Whitby 
Miss Eliza Wilson, Whitby 



Samuel Wharton, Scarbro* 
William Wharton, jun. Cloughfon 
Jos. Wrangham, Flotmanby H»1I 
John Watson, Scaleby 
John Wharton, Scarbro' 
J. Woodall, jun. Scarbro* 
Henry Whitehead, London 
Thomas Watson, Hawksdale 
William 'Wilson, Scarbro' 
John Watkinson, Scarbro' 
Jonathan Windle, Scarbro' 
William Williamson, Scarbro 
Thomas Whiting, Scarbro' 
Mrs Wilson, Alnwick 
T. Woolbert, Charing Cross, 2 cop. 
Matthew West, Somerset House 
G. Wells, Somerset House, 2 cop. 
George Walters, jun. Rotherhithe 
W. B. Wallis, Rotherhithe 
N. Wake, Rotherhithe 
William Wilson, Rotherhithe 
William Worboys, Deptford 
Thomas Wooster, Coal Exchange 
Thomas Watson Rotherhithe 
William Wilson, Coal Exchange 
William Wood, Coal Exchange 
T. Whitby, jun. Red Lion Wharf 
William Watt, Stepney Causeway- 
Thomas Walters, Newcrane 
Capt. Wake, Greenwich 
William Williamson, Cornhill 
John Woodhouse, Shadweli, 4 cop. 
Mrs Woodhouse, Shadweli 
Christopher Woodhouse, Shadwel! 
Robert Westmorland, Shadweli 
Richard Westmorland, Shadweli 
Henry White, Islington Road 
Thomas Wood, Wapping Wall 
Samuel Wegeuer, jun. Wapping; 
Francis Wright, Blvth 
Edward Wright, Blyth 
Jos. Wright, jun. Mill Wall, 2 cop. 
G. G. White, Coal Exchange 
Thomas Waters, Mill Wall 
Mark Watson, Lynn 
Ann Woolbert, Charing Cross 
Wm. Ward, Leeds 
Thomas Wilson, Carlisle 
John Watson, High Crosby 
Thomas Willis, Greenrow 
George Wilson, Maryport 
Wm. Wood, Cockermouth 
Jeremiah Wise, Maryport 
John Wilson, Maryport 
Thomas Wedgewood, Maryport 
Thomas Wilson, Workington 
Wm. Wallace, Workington 
Robert Wallace, Workington 
Joseph Wallace, Workington 
John Wonder, Harrington 
Wm. Wilson, Whitehaven 
Joseph Wood, Whitehaven 



Wm. Vellowley, Rotherhithe 
Ralph Younger, Greenland Dock 
Capt. W. Young, R. N. Deptford 
S. Young, jun. Stobhill 
Mrs Younghusband, Elwick 
Wm. Yeoman, jun. Whitby 
Cuthbert Young, South Shields 
Edward Young, South Shields 
George Young, South Shields 



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